After my father had seen me in five or six things, he said, Son, your mother and I really enjoyed your recent film, and I must say that you're a lot like John Wayne. And I said, How so? And he said, Well, you're exactly the same in all your roles. Now, as a modern American actor, that's not what you want to hear. But for a guy who watched John Wayne movies and grew up in Iowa, it's a sterling compliment.
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A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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Even though fathers, grandparents, siblings, memories of ancestors are important agents of socialization, our society focuses on the attribute...
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If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
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... if you're a woman, all they can think about your relationship with a politician is that you're either sleeping with him or advising him ab...
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Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.
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If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Br?nnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.
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Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.
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However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.
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Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is... For me, that balance is family, work, and service.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm ...
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It was not seen that woman's place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was...
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You don't need to know who's playing on the White House tennis court to be a good president. A president has many roles.
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In some roles I have to wear fur, and I always make sure it's fake, like in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Faux fur is great because it shows people that faux can look fabulous.
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Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.
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Tony is a very strange character. He is one of the most generous and most selfish men I have met. I think he is capable of doing it. I helped him a few times last year to the championship. If the roles were reversed, I would do the same thing for him.
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But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.
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Women have plenty of roles in which they can serve with distinction: some of us even run countries. But generally we are better at wielding the handbag than the bayonet.
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We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.
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Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
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I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.
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Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.
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