I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.
Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.
One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
It's very important in a leadership role not to place your ego at the foreground and not to judge everything in relationship to how your ego is fed.
The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.
Playing the role of Christ was like being in a prison. It was the hardest part I've ever had to play in my life. I couldn't smoke or drink in public. I couldn't.
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Being an actor, the less people know about my personal life, the more open-minded they can be about each role I play.
I'd love to be in a feature film, and I don't just mean in a starring role - it could be a small part. And I would like to act in television, to do comedy and drama.
I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.
People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype.
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.
I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.
Be who you are. If a man, be one. If woman, be so. The gender-change, behaviour or role, is a mind-made turd. As illusory as this world.
It felt good to be the one holding the blade; the role reversal gave him a much desired feeling of control.
We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.
We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.
I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles.
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 want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.
I admire Brad Pitt. He hasn't just done leading-man hunky roles; he's done a lot of edgier things.
