Human Roles Quotes

Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

One of the many possible divisions of human beings is into those who make and those who use.

There's a lot of automation that can happen that isn't a replacement of humans but of mind-numbing behavior.

Rather than wringing our hands about robots taking over the world, smart organizations will embrace strategic automation use cases. Strategic decisions will be based on how the technology will free up time to do the types of tasks that humans are uniquely positioned to perform.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

I'm interested in roles that are human, that have some sort of empathic quality.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

I can't always pick and choose, but I try very hard to take the roles where they are a bit more human. Sometimes there's a hilarious thing that comes along and it might not be the most interesting character, but I'm just delighted to be able to do something.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.