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Who should play the lead role in a film about me? Dunno. Danny De Vito? Jeff Goldblum? Meryl Streep? Someone of that kind.
Every role affects an actor a little bit. There's always a little chunk of a character that stays left over in your heart.
My favorite older movie of all-time is "Scarface." Al Pacino played that role so well. It's a longer movie, but I like it.
Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.
The roles that push you out of your comfort zones are the ones in which you learn a great deal and really empower yourself.
Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.
I definitely have role models. But it's hard to say, "Okay, I want to be Angelina Jolie," or "I want to be Charlize Theron.
Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it.
Earn by your efficiency and enthusiasm, The right to play higher and higher roles ,That is the meaning and purpose of life.
But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.
As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.
I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.
As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.
Everybody has an opportunity to play a role, a playmaking role, so it makes it harder to coach. It takes a little more time.
I just want to keep the diversity and the options open. In terms of what I'm looking for, I'd like to do a lead action role.
In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role.
The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.
The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.
I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.
I've been playing these schoolgirl roles in all my movies. Every time I went to the set, it felt like I was going to school.
After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn't get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.
For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.
I actually prefer getting into roles that are the polar opposite of me; that's why I've done so many dark and dreary things.
In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.
I live this life at a pace that anyone can go. Know your place, and dedicate your role ...To the faith that you'll die alone
I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.
It's much easier to have something that's absolutely definite and has a definite identity, rather than a really generic role.
I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.
I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.
When it's a minor or supporting role, you learn to make the most of what you're given. I can make two lines seem like Hamlet.
I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.
Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women.
I have many dear friends in the film industry, but finally, the roles come to me on merit, not because of personal equations.
Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world.
That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.
This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs.
I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.
I never, in my wildest dreams, could I have thought that the first role I get out of school would lead to an Oscar nomination.
I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.
When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."
The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
I value men and I don't necessarily want to adopt the man's role, but I do want to see women's humanity honored and respected.
There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.
For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.
We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.
It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the Barbie doll roles.
I usually don't know how to fight hard for roles. I've certainly sent a passionate letter or two... which always leads nowhere.