56 Role Quotes

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.

In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet.

Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn't really find any communities that still needed pillars.

People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.

I cannot suggest political ways out, that is the task of politicians, so it is simply that those who accuse me of this do not know how to read.

All of my roles have had their own unique set of challenges, and I enjoy that in some perverse, masochistic way. I'm always dying though! Maybe I have some kind of fetish.

But men must know that in this theater of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly. (p.109)

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge. Consider, sir; what is the purpose of courts of justice? It is, that every man may have his cause fairly tried, by men appointed to try causes. A lawyer is not to tell what he knows to be a lie: he is not to produce what he knows to be a false deed; but he is not to usurp the province of the jury and of the judge, and determine what shall be the effect of evidence - what shall be the result of legal argument.

Accidents will occur in the best regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances the-a-I would say, in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.

Judges ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.

Accountants are the scorers of industry; they have nothing to do with playing the game. (Probably not tongue-in-cheek, as he was implicated in the De Lorean scandal shortly before his death.)

If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers. (79)

A security chief who was of the impression that the policing functions of his Gestapo and SD were somewhat on the order of directing traffic.

Me? I play Gene Kelly...It's a guy who produces, directs, sings, and dances. who else could it be but Kelly.?

The job of the Vice President is to go to weddings and funerals.

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they to do when the children were grown - watch raindrops coming down the windowpane?

We are not warriors in anyone's army. And that is not trying to be self-deprecating. I'm proud of what we do. I really like these two shows. I like making 'em. I like watching them. I'm really proud of them. But I understand their place. I don't view us as people who lead social movements.

Joyce was a wonderful woman, but she wasn't Prime Minister, was she?

Ooh, yeah, you're amazing! We think you are really cool. We'd give you a part, my love, But you'd have to play the fool.

He was commander every moment they were together. He never had to remind them of it; he simply was.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate. -- The Future of Industrial Man (1942)

I am more an 'insultant' than a consultant... I scold people for a fee.

Qui fait le conseiller n'est plus ambassadeur.

The writer in me distrusts the good citizen, the 'intellectual ambassador,' the human rights activist - those roles which are mentioned in the citation for this prize, much as I am committed to them. The writer is more skeptical, more self-doubting, than the person who tries to do (and to support) the right thing.

The world's a stage on which all parts are played.

I think it's great that it's caused a reaction. But at the same time I think the people who are criticising us haven't really watched the show. We are not claiming to be marriage guidance people, or anything.

(King of The Ring 2001 Interview) 'I'm da WWF's bump machine!'

Take off that uniform and go back to being the doctor of Kurfurstendamm!

They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be

I am a bandleader and I am a composer. I am not a teacher.

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

I'm the original take-orders girl.

We are all ministers of the Gospel. Some of us just happen to be clergymen.

Womanliness means only motherhood; All love begins and ends there.

Green Wing (series 1) playing Dr. Caroline Todd

Black Books playing Fran Katzenjammer

The Archers playing Debbie Aldridge