Diane Keaton was a big role model for me.

- Andie MacDowell

I never had a better role than I had in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' That was one of my favorite roles ever.

- Alan Arkin

God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.

- Adam Hamilton

Burmese authors and artists can play the role that artists everywhere play. They help to mold the outlook of a society - not the whole outlook, and they are not the only ones to mold the outlook of society, but they have an important role to play there.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

- Ann Richards

Any sort of role requires a certain amount of research and embodiment of the character and psychological investigation.

- Andy Serkis

As soon as you do it, actors realize there is no difference playing a performance-captured role or a live-action role.

- Andy Serkis

In performance capture roles, it's not a committee of animators that author the role, it's the actor. I think that's a significant thing for people to understand.

- Andy Serkis

There is a sense in which the United States ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say.

- Andrew Young

I think role models exist, but they usually don't get the light because people like scandal.

- Andie MacDowell

I know that I'll end up being a role model for many, many people out there for all kinds of reasons.

- Abby Wambach

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

- Anais Nin

The black artist's role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.

- Amiri Baraka

Being a role model is a privilege.

- Allyson Felix

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

- Albert Camus

In 1995, I was thrust into the role of reluctant, flag-waving feminist and emotionally-focused artist/advocate.

- Alanis Morissette

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

- Alan Rickman

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

I think the government has a role in protecting the fundamental rights of its citizens.

- Al Franken

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan