Top 1200 Good Role Models Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

When I started out playing guitar and singing, I was about twelve, going on thirteen. The role models for me back then were the folk singers. They all had these high, really nice voices and ranges, like Judy Collins and Joan Baez, and then later, of course, Joni Mitchell and Linda Ronstadt. I decided early on that I was going to learn how to write songs really, really well, because I didn't want to have to compete as a singer. I didn't feel that it was my strong point.

I select good scripts, and every role is an opportunity to enhance my histrionic skills.

When I read that Khal Drogo role, I was blown away. I couldn't believe it was happening. I had to have that role.

I lost many a role to actresses who couldnt do the job one-hundredth as good as I could.

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

If there's an interesting role that comes up as a great support role in a decent picture, then I'll do that.

Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government.

The coach's role is in the background; it's the players who come first. I am ready to take this role.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

I'd probably be better in an action role and even a more comedic role as I find myself pretty hilarious.

I think the dream role is getting the opportunity to really sink my teeth into something and transform in the role.

In all my films, I have always played a de-glam role, but I really want to play a glamorous role.

My role in AC/DC is to keep time and to drive the band as much as I can. That's a drummer's role anyway.

My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it's always been a dream of hers.

The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.

I seek out parts which are strong women. It's not the quantity of a role; it's the quality of a role.

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

As soon as you do it, actors realize there is no difference playing a performance-captured role or a live-action role.

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

My long-term goal is to play a drag role or a female role in a Broadway production.

I've had the good fortune to play characters that have a role-model thing to them.

No matter what role I play, I have a certain image to maintain. I believe I'm a role model and I take my parts accordingly.

I think every role is always exciting and intimidating. I've never had a role where I wasn't intimidated by it.

Honestly a role is a role - whichever industry it is in - TV, stage or films.

As an actor, I know it is my job to shape myself for a role - any role.

I look at every role like a role and whatever it needs, I do it. I am known for that.

All it took was one good role to convince producers all over again that I could act.

The truth is, you don't ever decide on a role, not when you first begin. You audition for the role, and you're lucky to get it.

Especially a new role, it takes a long time for me to settle into a role but it's exciting as well.

I've always thought that the role of citizen, the role of advocate, were as important in our democracy as running for office.

As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

I do not try to play a role. I feel good being myself and saying what I think.

If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.

I am a lucky regional theater actor who happened to get a good role.

If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?

I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.

Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.

With every single role, you're not going to get a role unless you invest your whole heart into it.

Each role that I've played has had a piece of a dream role in it.

I look at my role and how important it is for the film. For instance, my role in 'Sarrainodu' was very much appreciated.

What we'd consider a positive role model, I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. You'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless. You just speak like a positive role model, and that's just something that you're being conscious of, and you make the decision, "I want to say positive things."

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

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

I don't have a dream role as such, but given a chance, I would want to play a historic role.

I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist period. Traditional models of making and consuming art are breaking down and being rebuilt. I find that to be incredibly exciting as a filmmaker and film marketer.

Every role I do is a dream role for me because I can't imagine I'm doing it.

I want to be a part of good stories. It's not about my role, but the overall story that counts.

Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity, so I opted not to work if there wasn't enough to do in a role, which doesn't have to do with the role's size.

It's not the governor’s role to decide who goes to heaven. That’s God’s role.

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.

For me, quality of role is important than the length of the role.

It happens a lot that women have to play the girlfriend role, which isn't as three-dimensional as the male role.

It doesn't matter if it's a small role: if I know I can pull it off and have a good team, I will do it.

I'm best known as a stand-up comedian, but I'm a good actor in the right role.

A role I grew up with and always loved was James Bond. I'd even say, in some ways, that he served as a creative role model for me as a kid in terms of roles I would want to play. I watched all of the movies growing up with my dad, so to be Bond himself would, without a doubt, be my dream role.

As a district judge, I view my role quite differently than the role of legislators.

The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.

Having my foundation be from two positive black role models in my life, my mom and my dad, two strong-minded intelligent individuals who clearly have made a great deal of great decisions in their lives and put me in a position, via educational institutions, to be around other intelligent people and to have a strong moral foundation, from which I try to never stray far. It all spurred me to carve out my own little niche as a human being.

I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.

My most memorable role would have to be Agnes Calay of 'Forevermore,' probably because it was my first lead role.