#role

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#creative #fighter #independent #little #must

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#consume #culture #decisions #feel #helpless

One of the things I find about acting is that the less the audience knows about the actor, the more they're able to believe in him in the role. ↗

— Hayden Christensen

#about #acting #actor #audience #believe

I really have no ulterior motive in taking on certain roles. I have no larger issue that I really want to show people. I'm an actor, that's all. I just do what I do. ↗

— Sally Field

#certain #i #i do #issue #just

The roles... the deep roles that I've gotten to play have turned my course. They've changed my life experience. ↗

— Sally Field

#course #deep #experience #gotten #i

I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#dean #ended #fired #friendly #from time to time

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. ↗

— Eric Clapton

#definition #establishing #everybody #everyone #family

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed. ↗

— Helen Clark

#beginning #charter #drafting #followed #lot

Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it. ↗

— John Cleese

#i #i can #i write #only #role

You know, I always got offered other stuff. Not the romantic leads, obviously. But very often it's a role that's underwritten, where the character has no personality at all. And they need a character actor who can fill it in. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#always #character #character actor #fill #got