Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly.

It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely prelude to complete withdrawal from the conflict. There is solid evidence...

I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates – from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome...

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

He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.

I can be anything – and nothing, and everything at the same time. It all depends on the role I am in.

The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.

Creating a role is an interesting thing – each show or each situation is different.

Defend your leadership roles with your true character. Never attack your own aspirations with corruption and unfaithfulness! Keep calm and be honest!

I don’t see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

I still haven’t played a leading role in cinema or in TV, and that’s something that I long for.

God’s role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.

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...

In every role, a part of me gets to come out.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.

The American people don’t believe politicians. They don’t believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don’t believe the news media.

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.