Parts Quotes - page 15

I'm getting too old to play some parts, but I'm still greedy. (Max von Sydow)
One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't be able to smile so much. View quote
Max Walker
I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that. View quote
Michael Imperioli
In Seesaw, I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I dont get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing. View quote
Michele Lee
Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't help myself. It's been in me, and it evolves in me over the years. It's a condition in me. View quote
Millard Drexler
Some writers are more natural public performers than others; personally I find it quite strange giving interviews. But everyone has parts of their job that they like more than others. You can't complain if you get to do what you love doing most of the time, can you? View quote
Monica Ali
To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off. View quote
Morris Chestnut
All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration. View quote
Natalia Kills
Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L.A. But half of it is severe slummy, something like Rio De Janiero or something. So it's kind of weird, because it's both happening at the same time. View quote
Neill Blomkamp
When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had. View quote
Nicholas Lea
Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful. (Ninette de Valois)
In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore. View quote
Pico Iyer
And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten. View quote
Patricia Clarkson
I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years. View quote
Patrick Troughton
Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone. View quote
Richard Widmark
For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend. View quote
Robbie Robertson
As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit. View quote
Robert Fortune
Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character. View quote
Rod Paige
When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think it takes a very insensitive, tough person not to feel they need to do something. View quote
Ratan Tata
Hollywood does not write parts for people like me, an elderly gentleman, and when they find out you're crippled, forget about it. No, I'll never work again. View quote
Ricardo Montalban
I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world! (Richard Briers)
The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person. View quote
Sergei Bubka
In my early days I was a contract player at Universal and I had a wonderful mentor named Monique James, who was head of talent there, and she used to drag me on sets to do parts. View quote
Sharon Gless
When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts. View quote
Shirley Knight
It's interesting in American culture. We like to build people up and then push them off the pedestal, and then we want to see them come back. Like Britney Spears, and a lot of people, it's what we do, and it's not like that in other parts of the world. View quote
Simon Rex