Role Quotes

You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.

We got to talk about how lucky we are to have such amazing parents. They’ve always been and still are role models and mentors for us.

The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can’t if you’re playing comedic roles.

Management plays a role just keeping everything in place for you and making sure everything’s going right.

Once you become a professional athlete or once you do anything well, then you’re automatically a role model.

The kind of roles which you get, people identify with your roles, and it then leads to the kind of brands you get.

If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I’ll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.

I’m surprised Beyonce liked me. I met Beyonce!

The fact that we define ourselves by our roles can be an admirable thing – it’s how we build a life and make a living. But it’s also precarious. Roles change. Sometimes overnight.

A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, “Yes, someone like me can do this.”