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I also dreamt about finally meeting the leftist Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. He is a great role model for me.
It's amazing how the world has changed because, at that time [2005], a lot of actors didn't want to play a gay role.
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.
Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.
Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.
Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows.
I think the nation as a whole has a role in making sure that each individual, each citizen maximizes one's potential.
That's what I tell young actors. "You don't have to compromise. Go do some theater and wait for an appropriate role."
What I need is to believe in myself again — for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.
Just to be working again as an actress and possibly doing TV would just be great. It's not about how big the role is.
People figure because I'm blonde and was a model, I just waltzed into Los Angeles and got major roles in major films.
If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.
A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
For me it's the same thing if the fans boo or not, because my role is the villain. I'm happy when you clap me though.
My role is to think about tennis and to help Serena Williams be the best she can be and do what she wants to achieve.
The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.
In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.
You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!
I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]
Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.
I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
After that, I was offered lots of lesbian roles, but I didn't want them because I'd already played the best there was.
I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off.
'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.
My main goal, when I started acting, was to show as much versatility as possible because I like playing diverse roles.
Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.
If I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's role.
The litmus test for whether I want to take on a role or not is usually fear. If Im afraid of it, then I want to do it.
I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role.
[Fan In Lobby from Stardust Memories] that was just after The Dain Curse. My other big uncredited role from back then.
Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.
I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.
When I was in my 20s, I wanted to go after dramatic roles, and I didn't have a tremendous amount of success with that.
It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
The financial markets play an active role in determining what's going to happen, how the economy is going to function.
It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.
Some things shoot in Chicago, but even those things that shoot there still cast their bigger roles in L.A. or New York.
When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
Few concepts are as basic as the role of workers in our economic structure and their participation in equity ownership.
When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.
In my role of agent for Miss Hathaway, I would like to say that she does not answer questions relating to this subject.
Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence
If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.
Despite the enormous role that local government plays in our daily lives, the constitution makes not one mention of it.
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't.
I am the least qualified person to comment on anyone playing the role of Batman since I so terribly destroyed the part.
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.