Roles Reversed Quotes

#1. The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence
roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.

Frank Herbert

#2. The roles could have easily been reversed. I wondered how God had chosen me to be born into such luxury when this little girl had been born into such hopelessness.

Katie J. Davis

#3. In Alien, Sigourney Weaver's role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie's role was written for Tom Cruise. These things, when reversed, do prove to be just as exciting and entertaining with women in leading roles.

Olivia Wilde

#4. My experience with casting children is that ... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.

Wes Anderson

#5. Mostly, the people in "the room" are paid lobbyists representing interests that could afford to pay them. No wonder policy isn't being made that helps smaller, independent musicians or those unaffiliated with a larger entity.

Erin McKeown

#6. They caught hands again, and walked toward the water's edge, two small figures against the black waves. Only halfway there, one of them must have remembered again and it passed like a fresh current of joy between them. They stood at the water's edge, not letting go, and rocked with laughter.

Rachel Joyce

#7. The old men send the young to die in war,
But if the roles were reversed, what then the score?

Alan Cook

#8. Afford each person the same respect, support, and fair treatment you would expect if your roles were reversed. Deal with people individually, not as objects who are part of a herd-that's the critical factor.

Bill Walsh

#9. There were certain young actors I had trained with at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art who had always got the big parts and I was always the spear-carrier. Suddenly the roles were reversed and I couldn't understand why, and nor could they.

David Warner

#10. But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,
If your Snark be a Boojum! for then
You will softly and suddenly vanish away,
And never be met with again!

Lewis Carroll

#11. said. "Life gets hard when a woman hits her mid to late 30s. I told you it's the Uglying Up years. The wrinkles come and the arm fat. The hangy-down thing on most necks.

Susan Reinhardt

#12. I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

Graham Swift

#13. You know we have reversed roles, right? The guy is the one who usually doesn't want to spoon and the chick wants to be all hugged up on him.

Georgia Cates

#14. All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

Indira Gandhi

#15. If these were my last moments on earth, I'd spend them fighting to save him with everything I had. If our roles were reversed, I knew he'd do the same.

Jeaniene Frost

#16. The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women.

Marguerite Young

#17. The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.

Leo Tolstoy

#18. We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

Jerry Only