Quotes of: Leadership-role Keyword

As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.

Jason Silva

I want to play roles that I'm proud of, that I feel a certain integrity about, and I want to continue to be truthful in the work that I do.

Laz Alonso

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

Sean Penn

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

Carol P. Christ

Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.

Gloria Steinem

The role of women has always been undervalued in the spy world, always undermined in terms of recognition. Unfairly so. It's a world that needs women.

Helen Mirren

NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

Jenny Shipley

I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.

Katori Hall

I want to tell women in developing countries that they are as powerful as their male counterparts, and they can play an equal role in their respective societies.

Samina Baig

The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated.

Ahmed Chalabi

I definitely don't look my age. So I actively look for roles that will help people change their perception of me.

Elijah Wood

I don't reflect on sort of the age of the roles that I get. It's usually just what plays into what's believable - 'Am I believable at this age?'

Joel Kinnaman

I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.

Joichi Ito

Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

Youssou N'Dour

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

Joan Cusack

As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.

Sophie Okonedo

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

John Lithgow

I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl or the girlfriend.

Lily Collins

I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

Natalie Massenet

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.

Natalie Wood

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

Patch Adams