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...

My roles are in some way like children to me. You don’t ever really want to scrape one off your shoe.

I find it hard to do small roles sometimes.

Wife, to him, was someone who stood for stability, forcoming home, for dealing with all the shit he wasn’t able to deal with. For providing a real life and not this insanity.

Sometimes it gets a little uncomfortable to not do everything. That was my modus operandi for many years, but I just feel like I want to do challenging roles.

I look for struggle in the roles I choose – struggle and perseverance.

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.

Not a lot of people make that transition from child actor to bigger, better roles.

I think that there’s not much point to being an actor if you’re not enjoying it, so I try to be picky about roles I do like to go out for.

I don’t want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English.

I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want to pigeon myself, so I always like to surprise myself. I...

I sometimes want to do totally different roles. I don’t always want to play ‘wholesome.’

Are we not all actors playing parts in another person’s play?

I don’t want to play everything. So I’ll seek out roles that I’ll say, ‘This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.’

I got into acting for the different scenarios and roles and meeting different people.

I’ve done a handful of great roles.

I want to have roles in English.

I love roles where I have to transform myself.

Darling, you know and I know that everything is straight between us at last beyond the furthest abstract definition in metaphysical terms or any terms you want to specify or sweetly impose or harken back.

I don’t think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.

Obviously, I play a villain in ‘Downton Abbey’. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

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.