Mel exhaled. "Why are you forcing me into the voice-of-reason role? You know that never works out for us.
She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.
I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.
I don't see money or a particular status as an actor as a goal, but I want to do the best work I can in as interesting a range of roles as I can.
Sometimes I feel like the best role models and the people you should look up to most are the people who make mistakes because they show you how to overcome them and walk through that mistake with integrity and grace.
I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.
Having grown up in a military family, I know that politics should have no role in determining who is best qualified to lead our armed forces.
The growing role of enterprise social media, plus the growing budgets and authority of CMOs entrusted with choosing the best platforms, translates into an exciting future for apps that harness social potential for large companies.
Gender roles suck," says Swift Fox. Then you should stop playing them, thinks Toby.
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.
The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
My role is Katara: in 'The Last Airbender,' I'm a water bender from the southern water tribe, and my character is really strong but also loving.
I never try to show an actor what to do or what to say. He has to find out for himself. The role of the director is to guide him to that state, and then to implement it.
People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up
You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.
I always keep thinking, 'The next role - that's going to be the one that's really going to define me and show them all. I'll transform and disappear, and it will be a revelation.'
The independent role of morphology in mate choice is revealed by the rare instances where the usual association between song and morphology is disrupted.
I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.
I want to be strong enough to cope with the roles, but I don't want to be cast as the guy that takes his shirt off.
My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.
Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.