Role Quotes

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

Government has the role of suiting people for freedom. People aren't made for freedom spontaneously. There's sort of a 19-year race between when people are born and when they become adults. And government has a role in making them, at the end of 19 years, suited to be upright, trustworthy repositories of popular sovereignty.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

While the recent addition of the National Guard providing a support role manning computers and cameras has allowed more Border Patrol agents to work the field, more agents are still needed.

Having shaved my head for the role put a spotlight on me.

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

Our role is to develop techniques that allow us to provide emergency life-saving procedures to injured patients in an extreme, remote environment without the presence of a physician.

Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books.

I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.

My studies are important to me. I made the honor role just recently, with 2 A's and 2 B's.

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.

The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit.

It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.

I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.

They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.

If you play a gay role, it sticks more than it does if an actor were to play a murderer or a psychopath.

Parents must lead by example. Don't use the cliche; do as I say and not as I do. We are our children's first and most important role models.

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.

When a 'Life of Brian' comes out with Muhammad in the lead role, directed by an Arab equivalent of Theo van Gogh, it will be a huge step forward.

My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'