74 Roles Quotes

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them.

Oh, he was the sun burning bright and brittle And she was the moon shining back his light a little He was a shooting star She was softer and more slowly He could not make things possible But, she could make them holy.

The institution of marriage in all societies is a pattern within which the strains put by civilization on males and females alike must be resolved, a pattern within which men must learn, in return for a variety of elaborate rewards, new forms in which sexual spontaneity is still possible, and women must learn to discipline their receptivity to a thousand other considerations.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.

We're not sexists, we're chauvinists - we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want.

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

I always thought that I would work behind the camera, because... it's a more comfortable place for me to be, really.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then first lady.

You know it's flattering when there's a rumor that says I'm bisexual. It means I can play more kinds of roles. I'm open to whatever people want to call me. I've never really been attracted to men sexually, but I don't think I would be afraid of it if it happened.

'I've always thought Prince Charming in Cinderella was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.'

Too much has already been said and written about 'women's sphere'. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

Intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties of men and the duties of women, the sphere of man and the sphere of woman, are mere arbitrary opinions, differing in different ages and countries, and dependent solely on the will and judgment of erring mortals.

People come up to me and say 'Steve, what is film editing?' And I say 'How should I know? You're the director.'

Maids must be wives and mothers to fulfil The entire and holiest end of woman's being.

'I used to get the girl; now I get the part. In 'The Quiet American' you may have noticed I got the part and the girl. It's a milestone for me, because it's the last time I'm going to get the girl. I'm sure of it, now I'm nearly 70.'

A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command.

Good soldiers, bad officers; but remember that without them we wouldn't have civilization.

Man's got his woman to take his seed He's got the power - oh She's got the need She spends her life through pleasing up her man She feeds him dinner or anything she can. She cries alone at night too often He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all. Only women bleed...

I have the rest of my life to play prostitutes, drug addicts and all of the good roles. But you can only wear a tiara for so long, and I'm kind of nearing the end of that.

Though the most be players, some must be spectators.

Mr. Wurlitzer, I am now in a position to receive your organ.

A bunch of girls say, 'You don't need no man to help you raise no child' : shut the fuck up with the bullshit! Yeah, you could do it without a man, but that don't mean it's to be done! Shit, you can drive a car with your feet if you want to, that don't make it a good fucking idea!

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.)

Dylan: said, 'Both Becky and Kenny need medical attention-' 'And a prison cell until their social security kicks in,' Jilly added. '-but give us two or three minutes before you call 9-1-1,' Dylan finished. This instruction baffled Marj. 'But you are 9-1-1.' Jilly fielded that peculiar question: 'We're one of the ones, Marj, but we're not the other one or the nine.'

For what is life but a play in which everyone acts a part until the curtain comes down?

The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.

I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

It is good to be back in the People's House. But this cannot be a real homecoming. Under the Constitution, I now belong to the executive branch. The Supreme Court has even ruled that I am the executive branch - head, heart, and hand.

If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much -- just an occasional sun visor.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

I don't necessarily want to always play the leading man - I'd like to shave my head and sew my eyeballs shut. (1988)

You whisper, 'You have loved enough, Now let me be the Lover.'

lf l am not mistaken, the words 'art' and 'artist' did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Mothers are different. Mothers are darlings.

Whenever there is a job to be taken on of a kind calculated to make Humanity shudder, the cry goes up, 'Let Wooster do it.'

All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.

I am unclear what a 'role model' is, but those who used the term seemed to be saying that teachers are people children tend to emulate. In any event, many Miamians must have thought their children would become homosexual if subjected to homosexual teachers. That prompted me to ponder teachers I haven't seen, and scarcely thought about, for decades, and for the first time I reflected on how their sex lives had affected my own. My first thought was that it was curious, perhaps perverse, that I have not turned out to be a spinster.