Explore Quotes on Responsibility

People become actors because they want to hide, and it's not easy to talk about myself. I accept that a certain responsibility goes with being an actor in the public eye, but I haven't found a comfortable way to deal with it.

Mentorship is an incredibly huge responsibility. And you need to choose your mentors carefully, just like mentors choose their apprentices carefully. There has to be trust there, on a very deep level.

Ideally, for me, the power of appreciation lies in getting better roles and being given more responsibility as an actor.

I think that getting responsibility and structure are huge parts of growing up.

If you say something you have to take responsibility for it.

We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility.

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.

If you're playing any real person, live or dead, you certainly have a responsibility to produce that reputation in some way.

The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.

We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.

Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money.

I believe we have a responsibility, even if our job is to lead a nonprofit organization, as private citizens to be good citizens and to make our voices heard.

Since I carry my father's name, I believe it is my responsibility to use that name as he would have to support the causes that were so dear to his heart. Dad strongly supported Huckabee when no one thought that he had any chance to succeed in the presidential race.

I think there's a responsibility more as an artist to try and push in the direction you think comedy should go... The biggest thing I could do for the art that I love was keeping it art: keeping it special, keeping it honest, keeping it truthful.

You feel a huge sense of responsibility when you're playing a real person.

When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist - he said that media had a responsibility, that all sectors of society had a responsibility to try and progress things and move things forward. And that fascinated me, because I'd been messing around with a camera most of my life.

Responsibility for me is to be myself - which is not perfect.

I feel like it's my responsibility not to leave the listener in a pool of dread.

I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis.