Quotes of: Character-roles Keyword

My work is distinct and definitive and specific, and hopefully it is so that every single character is different, and they are - but there's probably an underlying element that's me.

Michael Keaton

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

Manuel Puig

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

Norman Jewison

I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twisters to help me deliver lines.

Quvenzhane Wallis

Profitability comes from loyalty, productivity, and having a character base from which to work.

Zig Ziglar

I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?

Evan Goldberg

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

Ken Follett

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

The Calling

Never accept the role of a Gladiator if you do not have the spirit of a Warrior.

Gladiator Leaders: Don't Drink the Laced Drink

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

Georg Baselitz

There does not seem to be that collegiality I referred to, there seems to be much more of a them versus us attitude, rather than we all have a role to play in this process so let's get on with it.

Len G. Murray

I have a real taste for doing action roles. I starred in a movie called 'Blast,' which was my first action film, and I loved the fighting - I think I've got the build, the attitude and the look for it.

Nadine Velazquez

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

Cate Blanchett

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

J. G. Ballard

I've played a lot of roles I haven't wanted to play, either because they needed someone in the theatre or because they couldn't do it without me 'cause they don't have anyone else the right age.

John Mahoney

Women have been brought up to be passive, accepting, not come forward and play a major role in life. And with age, there's a tendency to revert to that - to pull back, recede. I don't think it's advisable or admirable.

Katherine Helmond

I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.

Lindsay Lohan

When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.

Stephen Collins

I couldn't handle the rules the Queen has to live by at all, and very few of us could. It's a golden cage, really. You're never alone in that role - you are always surrounded by security.

Helen Mirren

I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.

Susan Wojcicki

There's such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life - different stages, different fascinations, different textualities, different friendships.

Juno Temple