Honestly, I look at the project and I look at the people attached and I look at the director. If it’s a role that I feel will help me, as an actor, then I’ll definitely take it.

Playing a role is an easy act, but when you stop doing it, it’s almost like you need to think again about the process.

The stage and screen are canvases, and each role is a stroke in the painting of a narrative

I don’t feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

It is their job as actors to play different people. Should only a doctor play a doctor’s role?

In baseball, every player has a role to play, and every role is vital to the team’s success

As the sociologist Daniel Bell later observed, Oppenheimer’s ordeal signified that the postwar “messianic role of the scientists” was now at an end.

You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer’s film if I just asked.

To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by “society”.

In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you’ve got osteoporosis.

My mother had me when she was 15. My father died before I was born. So my mother was a teenage widow, and she used herself as her greatest example so I wouldn’t end up in her position.

I’m very attached to my family. My mother is hard on me when she has to be, and that makes a huge difference. Their support means I need concentrate only on playing.

In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.

When it’s time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.

The best thing about having my very first audition lead me to an Oscar nomination means that I don’t have to struggle the rest of my career to be nominated for an Oscar, to prove that I’m a great actress, because I’ve already done it. Now I can do things that just make me happy.

I think it’s highly likely that we’ll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I’m not sure we’re all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens – which is a reasonable view, I’m just not sure I buy into it

Mental fitness plays a big role during competition.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.

For different roles, my condition and training and diet does alter. Depending on the role, it will really dictate the type of training I do.

I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.

Everyone’s Taking Control Of Me Seems That The World’s Got A Role For Me I’m So Confused Will You Show To Me You’ll Be There For Me And Care Enough To Bear Me

I stay away from the title of ‘role model.’ I want to be a more realistic role model, not a perfect Barbie role model.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me. Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed

When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.

I didn’t know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.

The best people need little supervision.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day

We’re so afraid of each other… Color, wealth, these things that don’t really matter still play too much of a role in how we see one another. And it’s sad, because the thing that least defines us is the color of our skin.