Quotes of: Leading-role Keyword

Once people see you pulling off one role, they think you're a safe bet to do a similar role.

Margot Robbie

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

Maximilian Schell

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience.

Sally Field

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

Patricia Hill Collins

I don't pick roles based on how famous they are going to make me; I pick roles based on how they're going to inspire me intellectually.

Erin Daniels

A director recommended me for the role on 'Soap.' They said, 'She plays heavy roles, murderesses and the like.' He said, 'On stage, she could be very very funny.'

Katherine Helmond

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

Corey Feldman

I don't think you should do things in your personal life differently because you're a role model.

Shannen Doherty

I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.

David Suchet

What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?

Jim Brown

I think that my biggest role models are people that have maybe struggled for a while and then finally gotten to their destination.

Jonathan Brandis

I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.

Jessica Chastain

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

Dan Rather

I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.

Jaclyn Smith

I'm flattered that other artists consider me a role model.

Janet Jackson

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

Jeffrey Jones

I've played a lot of younger, more coming-of-age roles as well as roles that aren't such an imposing physical presence.

Josh Keaton

They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.

James Lipton

Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

Bobby Orr

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

Margaret Cho

I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.

Vinny Guadagnino