role quotes

• I never thought a role model should be negative. (Michael Jordan) [role]
• Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role. (Dean Acheson) [role]
• The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images. (Albert Einstein) [words/language/role/more]
• All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health. (Germaine Greer) [mother/society/role/psychoanalysis]
• The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning further than the author himself can see or perceive. (Vaclav Havel) [role/being/being]
• I never thought a role model should be negative. (Michael Jordan) [role]
• In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it. (John F. Kennedy) [role/danger/responsibility]
• There are few good women who do not tire of their role. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [women/role]
• Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements. (Nelson Mandela) [role/fight/countries]
• The role of the intelligence --that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit. (Simone Weil) [role/intelligence]
• Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and... I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks. (Nicole Kidman) [film/role/stage]
• I don't know what the big issue is about it [a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things]. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it. (Denise Richards) [kiss/wild/role/think]
• When I found out they were making the movie , it was a dream role for me . I wanted people to know that I`m a strong woman . I went after this role as hard as I could. (Jessica Simpson) [movie/role/people/role]
• I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies. (Eva Herzigova) [role]
• I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging. (Aishwarya Rai) [role]
• Someone who's like Angelina Jolie because she isn't scared of not being pretty. She's my favourtie actress. I'd love a role like the one she played in 'Girl, Interrupted'. I've never met her.. I'd be so nervous! And star-struck! (Christina Aguilera) [being/love/role]
• "I turned down a part in "Valley Of The Dolls" because it depicted me as a singer and that's the kind of movie I don't want to do. I'd like a role similiar to many of Angelina Jolie's. A little gritty, but interesting to watch." (Christina Aguilera) [movie/role]
• I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else (Britney Spears) [inspiration/people/role]
• Madonna is my role model she's such a powerful woman. I love Gwenyth Paltrow, she's an actress I aspire to be like. And, of course, my mom. She drove me from New Jersey to New York every day for commercials so I could get where I am today. (Kirsten Dunst) [role/love/day]
• By the time I'm 80, I want to have played almost every role, ... For me, I always gravitate toward the opposite of what I've done. ... That comes from the inner desire to do more. (Carla Gugino) [time/role/desire/more]
• By the time I'm 80, I want to have played almost every role. (Carla Gugino) [time/role]
• People don't really understand their role in society. (Al Lewis) [people/role/society]
• Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too. (Albert Finney) [role/think/artist]
• The World's Fastest Indian? Oh, that's not for me. I've done enough with that role. (Anthony Hopkins) [role]
• [In September, Gwyneth Paltrow reprises her role in the award-winning play] Proof ... Shakespeare in Love. (Anthony Hopkins) [role/love]
• It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role. (Bela Lugosi) [film/type/role]
• The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula. (Bela Lugosi) [role/demand/vampire]
• Nobody I represent is pretending to be the pope or a role model for young people. People have to live their lives. They have the right to smoke if they want. (Ben Affleck) [role/people/people/right]
• I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training. (Benjamin Bratt) [literary style/role/school/training]
• I have to go off by myself to keep a balance. I can't always be, "Bill the actor." I must stop and gain perspective so as not to confuse my role and my person. (Bill Bixby) [balance/role]
• You can't be idle and have things happen. Some people say, "Why have you accepted so many small parts through the years?" Well, my reply is that I try to make something out of a small role. . . . (Bill Bixby) [people/role]

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