Role Quotes - page 4

Actors always have to fight for the good parts. There are so few good roles written for women each year, and when one is written like this every actress in town covets the role. (Halle Berry)
Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody. View quote
Vilfredo Pareto
And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role. View quote
Clarence Thomas
One element, however, tends to go flagrantly missing in even the most vivid conspiracy theories about the banking system, let alone in official accounts: that is, the role of military power. There's a reason why the wizard has such a strange capacity to create money out of nothing. Behind him there is a man with a gun. View quote
David Graeber
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. View quote
Britney Spears
I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead. ... Education itself - which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people - sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour ... It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions and other ways of being and living. View quote
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
It takes a little more time to get into the role, but not very much more. In making a record you don't have the sense of projection over a distance as in an opera house. We have this microphone and this magnifies all details of a performance, all exaggerations. In the theater, you can get away with a very large, very grand phrase. For the microphone, you have to tone it down. It's the same as making a film, your gestures will be seen in close-up, so they cannot be exaggerated as they would be in a theater. View quote
Maria Callas
The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the different elements within the state at those times when, for one reason or another, their imbalance threatens to disrupt the orderly development of society. View quote
Edward Heath
At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship. View quote
Lucy Lawless
We must nevertheless present all possible interpretations for each observation, so that competing theories can be formulated and defended. In science, as elsewhere, intellectual inertia, the fashions of the moment, the weight of institutions, and authoritarianism are always to be feared. Heresies play an essential role by keeping our minds argumentative and alert. View quote
Hubert Reeves
The progressive historical role of capitalism may be summed up in two brief propositions: increase in the productive forces of social labour, and the socialisation of that labour. But both these facts manifest themselves in extremely diverse processes in different branches of the national economy. (Vladimir Lenin)
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. View quote
J. G. Ballard
It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film. View quote
Tina Fey
I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude. View quote
Colin Powell
I think you always have to use certain parts of yourself in any role. View quote
Joan Collins
History of science played a very important role for me. View quote
Georges Charpak
The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market. View quote
Jacques Delors
All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists. View quote
Stephen Sondheim
The role of television is the illusion of company, noise. I call it the fifth wall and the second window: the window of illusion. View quote
Mumia Abu-Jamal
If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons. View quote
Pierre Bourdieu
I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history. (Vivienne Westwood)
The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself. View quote
Louise Bourgeois
Composition is a side issue. Its role in my selection of photographs is a negative one at best. By which I mean that the fascination of a photograph is not in its eccentric composition but in what it has to say: its information content. And, on the other hand, composition always also has its own fortuitous rightness. View quote
Gerhard Richter
The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over. View quote
Paulo Freire
The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role. View quote
Zbigniew Brzezinski