After doing so many different roles, if you don’t stretch yourself, there’s no excitement left.

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

I always think it’s hard for any young actor to make that transition to more grown-up roles. Because you don’t want to alienate your audience who has been supportive of you for so many years,...

In my experience, the content strategist is a rare breed who’s often willing and able to embrace whatever role is necessary to deliver on the promise of useful, useable content.

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

Most of the roles that I go for are Americans, so the first thing I had to do was pin down the American accent – which is obviously in ‘Blue Crush 2.’

You know sometimes it’s not the bigger roles that give you the most satisfaction, yeah?

The point I was trying to make before you interrupted with your inventoryof my personality is that neither of us is going to be able to stay celibate for the next six months.”She dropped her...

Lord, when I feel that what I’m doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me...

I don’t exactly set out to only play creepy characters, it’s just that a lot of those roles come my way.

The shovel is bigger than the spoon, but it can never ever do the work the spoon does. They both look similar; they both have different sizes but one more thing not to forget is...

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the ‘Barbie doll’ roles.

Playing roles and acting are forms of lying. If a person acts like they really feel and it rocks the boat, they are ostracized. We promote pretense and lying as a cultural way of life....

I think the serious roles impact people the most.

I never was very good at acting. I never was very good at playing the role. Because the true pretending can only come off in our genuine awareness of the real. Only those of us...

I think the first thing that I really did was ‘Traffic Light,’ which was more of a half-hour sitcom. And from there, I just got more comedic roles.

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

There are fewer and fewer new roles for actresses as they get older. And that’s not right.

I really want to play interesting roles, but you want to work, so it’s a balancing game.

It’s not fair that there aren’t very many juicy or varied roles for women.

What?

Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of ‘maternal imperative’ is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.

Leaders are not known by their positions; they are known by their roles in those position. You have many gifts as a leader, but your dominant gift is what you will use to lead.

Start-up teams are always in flux, so, like all start-ups, we’re always talking to candidates for various key roles.

I’m half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y… It’s sometimes hard for me to get the roles I’m drawn to.

But no, I don’t think I’m particularly drawn to the period roles or the medieval roles.

All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,Mewling and...

I don’t think I do that much to prepare for roles in general.

I don’t like when actors go around and talk a ton about how they approach their roles, because it’s a little like pulling the curtain back on Oz, for me.

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

My basic profession is as an actor, and I have learnt much about life through working as an actor. Working as an actor is really a spiritual profession, since it means to create life on...

A lamp cannot play the role of the Sun and the Sun cannot play the role of a lamp.

Now it is easy to perceive that the moral part of love is a factitious sentiment, engendered by society, and cried up by the women with great care and address in order to establish their...

I don’t know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven’t done before.

One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living...

My roles in the ’80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn’t pretty, I wasn’t this, I wasn’t that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That’s just my thing.

I’m a warrior when it comes to pursuing roles.

The interesting roles have only come since I got into my 30s. But I didn’t know that was going to happen.

What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course, this is purely an academic question and of no immediate concern to those...

The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I’m naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn’t even want to count. I need to balance...

Like some homeopathic cure, our very sense of imprisonment can be a step toward liberation. We need not rebel against our temporally determined roles. Merely to recognize them is to limit their power over us....

Butcher, baker, candlestick maker – many are unaware of the true role they play in Reality.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you...

However, I’m at a very comfortable place in my career and celebrity, in that I don’t have to audition as extensively as I used to for roles but yet I’m not immediately recognizable.

If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn’t be very many roles for me to play.

No one’s calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

A lot of roles for people with disabilities are quite patronising. It’s a real pity when they are just used to give dull PC kudos to a drama, or when they’re wheeled on in a...

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that’s really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do –...

I’ve never thought of myself as a classic leading man. I’m a character actor who happens to play leading roles. Come on, look at me. I’m really Desperate Dan.

I don’t think the relationship between novels and realities are one to one. Of course novels play different roles. It’s essentially just a long narrative form. What you use that long narrative form for can...