#roles

I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death.' 'What do you fear, lady?' he (Aragorn) asked. 'A cage,' she said. 'To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#age

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#available #base #because #been #billing

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust. ↗

— Connie Nielsen

#between #difference #discover #guys #mad

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's. ↗

— Al Pacino

#basically #doing #feel #i #i feel

I came here knowing nobody. I worked clubs as a singer and even the doors a few times before I landed some TV roles. ↗

— Chazz Palminteri

#came #clubs #doors #even #few

If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK. ↗

— Emmanuelle Riva

#i #like #me #offer #ok

With our Reserve and Guard units playing increasingly important roles in the war on terror and in Iraq, it is unacceptable to make them jump through any unnecessary hurdles. ↗

— Pat Roberts

#guard #hurdles #important #important roles #increasingly

The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years. ↗

— Cicely Tyson

#educating #entertaining #every #found #had

Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets. ↗

— Naomi Watts

#certainly #deeper #drying #exciting #gets

It's nice, though, getting older and being able to do different roles. ↗

— Luke Wilson

#being #different #different roles #getting #getting older