"As an actor, you always want to find a piece of who you are in every role you take on."
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"We overlook just how large a role we all play--and by 'we' I mean society--in determining who makes it and who doesn't."
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"That's the really frustrating thing, but also the fixable thing. My theory why no one notices is that that's the [women's roles] ratio thing they grew up with. It's just been that way forever, so they don't see it."
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"I'd like to be a better writer, but I have no dreams to direct or do a screenplay. And I'd love to have a big starring role in a movie because the paycheck would be bigger. That's the only reason I do films."
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"Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy."
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"I think [Donald Trump] is going to be inaugurated this week. I have great concerns, and apparently Republicans do as well, and there's going to be an investigation about the role that Russian hacking played in getting him elected."
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"Probably we should let Hillary [Clinton] play the role she was destined to play all by herself first."
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"I really do think that every time you play a role well, you are in danger of being identified with that role until the next big thing comes along."
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"I am not a role model."
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"When I was growing up, I didn't see me in the movies except in certain lesser roles. If it wasn't funny, I wasn't there. Then Sidney Poitier came along, and he wasn't funny. He was just good. There's me. So that was my pattern."
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"If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God."
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"I just listen to so much music that I like the role music can play in scoring something. I'm not doing song parodies or funny songs, I'm just adding some music to my words. So it's limited and specific, but as a performer I find it pretty enjoyable."
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"I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system."
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"The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive."
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"The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other."
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"It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role."
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"I'm like John Wayne. I only play good guys. Describing his cameo role on a TV series."
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"I'm happy people look at me as a role model."
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"Never underestimate the role pretension plays when it comes to creating euphemistic language."
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"Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role."
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