Quotes about "role"

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Sell also: character, function, office, part, persona, purpose, use

Definitions and meanings of word "role"

• Noun: the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group; examples: "the function of a teacher", "the government must do its part", "play its role"

• Noun: an actor's portrayal of someone in a play; example: "she played the part of Desdemona"

• Noun: what something is used for; examples: "the function of an auger is to bore holes", "ballet is beautiful but what use is it?"

• Noun: normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting; example: "what is your role on the team?"

Featured authors with quotes containing word "role"

Floyd Abrams
2 quotes about role
American Lawyer
Born Thursday 9 July 1936
Elizabeth Pena
2 quotes about role
American Actress
Born Saturday 23 September 1961
Natasha Henstridge
2 quotes about role
Canadian Actress, Model
Born Thursday 15 August 1974
William Weld
4 quotes about role
American Politician
Born Tuesday 31 July 1945
Julian Assange
3 quotes about role
Australian Journalist, Editor, Activist, Publisher
Born 1971
Sarah Chalke
2 quotes about role
Canadian Actress
Born Friday 27 August 1976
Paul Ryan
4 quotes about role
American Politician, Vice President
Born Thursday 29 January 1970
Don Cheadle
2 quotes about role
American Critic, Actor, Producer
Born Sunday 29 November 1964
Rod Taylor
2 quotes about role
Australian Actor
Saturday 11 January 1930 - Wednesday 7 January 2015
Ricki Lake
2 quotes about role
American Actress, Entertainer, Producer
Born Saturday 21 September 1968
Barack Obama
3 quotes about role
American President
Born Friday 4 August 1961
Joey Lauren Adams
2 quotes about role
American Actress
Born Wednesday 6 January 1971

Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

Elizabeth Pena

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It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me.

Elizabeth Pena

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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

Elizabeth Pena

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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

Elizabeth Pena

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My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Elizabeth Pena

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My role isn't to be politically smart. My role is to do what's right under the constitution. And if that's politically unpopular, so be it.

Elizabeth Pena

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We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.

Elizabeth Pena

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I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

Elizabeth Pena

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Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

Elizabeth Pena

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Well, the responsibility for maintaining a reliable transmission grid is one that's shared by an awful lot of players who have a role in the grid: Companies that either generate and transmit energy or just play the role of being the transmission systems or monitoring them.

Elizabeth Pena

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My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

Elizabeth Pena

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I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in Canada to call me every four years - which they do - and I go up there and play a leading role.

Elizabeth Pena

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I look for a role that hopefully I feel empathy with and that I can understand and love, but also that has that challenge for me to play - a different kind of role, a different type of character, a different time period.

Elizabeth Pena

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In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

Elizabeth Pena

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I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

Elizabeth Pena

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The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

Elizabeth Pena

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I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.

Elizabeth Pena

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I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.

Elizabeth Pena

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As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

Elizabeth Pena

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I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

Elizabeth Pena

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