I can’t accept every film that is offered to me. Not all of them interest me.
I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time – a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
I was offered 10-12 films during the time that we were working on ‘Paani.’
I’m not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can’t get my head around it.
If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both to our government’s attitude during the Second World War and to the very late postwar discovery that the restitution process had been poorly conceived.
No one in their right mind would turn down the contracts I’ve been offered.
When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of ‘Peter Pan’ for the school play. They didn’t use it – I imagine it was unperformable – but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me.
I think people need to understand the amount of emotions I can pull off. I want films I’m offered to have these dimensions.
The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.
The UFC didn’t want me to fight there so what could I do? We were unable to make a deal. They offered unacceptable conditions.
The last person who was brave enough to cast me was Rahul Bose in ‘Everybody Says I’m Fine.’ He gave me no choice. He is my dearest friend. I confided in him about how disillusioned I was by the business of cinema and stardom. He offered me a role.
Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me.
I don’t have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I’ve done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that’s mostly what I’m offered.
I got offered publishing deals to write country music, but it was not what I wanted to do.
After having acted in films down south, I always wanted to work on the small screen but couldn’t say yes to everything that was being offered to me.
The best thing I ever did was when I was offered a million dollars to go play in South Africa and didn’t take it. I was 21 years old, and part of it was like, ‘Well, if they’re offering me this obscene amount of money just to play one match, there must be something really wrong.’
I was tired of the same saas-bahu family dramas that I was being offered, so I took a long break.
I was offered a jingle, and that led to another one, followed by composing music for documentaries. It got me in contact with other artistes on the scene. We would meet, jam up, and that’s how Silk Route was formed.
One time, I had a guy, when I was performing at Caesar’s Palace, and during the course of the show, I offered him an anniversary gift for him and his wife, and it was her watch wrapped in a little package.
People say they love the characters I’ve chosen in my career. But I didn’t choose anything. I just happened to be working and these were offered to me.
I’ve been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I’m just not interested.
Growing up as a queer child in Mississippi, I got my Nintendo in 1985, and I’ve been lost in this world ever since. When I was scared because my church said people like me were going to burn in hell, ‘Final Fantasy,’ ‘Dragon Warrior’ and ‘Super Mario’ offered a lifeboat.
Bejoy Nambiar had offered me ‘Shaitaan’ some years ago. But I wasn’t confident about my Hindi.
The only reason I was offered ‘Punisher’ was because I had made an indie film that was rated R for violence and was filled with fight scenes.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Playing for England was always something I dreamt of and, of course, you then think of the captaincy. It was something I never thought I would be offered, especially after the way I started my career. But when it came along, I was very keen to have a go.
There are always great deals of humanity in the characters that have been offered to me.
There are scripts when you fall so much in love with your character. And if you are lucky and offered this part, you should not tempt your fate and go to the greatest extent to be/to play this character. If you have an opportunity to do that and you do not, it’s shameful.
I think you’re stereotyped after every film. Post ‘Dev D,’ I was only offered bold roles. Similarly, after ‘Margarita With A Straw,’ I was offered roles where I had to play differently-abled people. So, no matter what type of film you work in, people tend to slot you.
Palace offered me the opportunity to come and play and I took it with both hands.
Two days before I got the audition for ‘Extras,’ I was offered a theatre role, and I asked my husband, Terry, whether I should take it or not. He said, ‘No, wait and see what else comes in.’ Lo and behold, along came ‘Extras.’ Now that was lucky!
Because, let’s face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.
I constantly have anxiety about being the lead of the show. I don’t talk about it because it scares me. But I’ve always wanted to be part of something where I could work on a character in such a big manner, and you get offered that with all the trappings of being the lead of the show.
I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but that’s a little way off yet.
I imagine there are things I wouldn’t do, but I haven’t been offered those recently either.
I just realized I wanted to do more than ballet. I was offered an apprenticeship, so I was about to join a company and drop out of high school, and then it hit me: I didn’t want that anymore.
I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I look and whatever. And I tend to avoid them because I think you can end up in a cul-de-sac of your own making if you’re cast in that.
I hope I can use everything that’s being offered to me to do good in other people’s lives.
I’m really into sci-fi. The reason I’m an actor is because of ‘Star Wars’ – I saw that and I knew that’s what I wanted to do. But most of the projects I’m offered as an actor are straightforward dramas, so I haven’t really been given a chance to do that kind of role.
Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it’s the world’s largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.
I was offered Fagin-type roles, but I wanted to do new things. I could have worked in America, but there was a recession in the British film industry, and I wanted to work in England. I’ve no regrets.
If you’re a sexy actress, it’s hard to get serious roles. You get offered the same thing they’ve seen you in. People are like sheep, and they’re like, ‘Oh, that’s what she does well.’
An apology offered and, equally important, received is a step towards reconciliation and, sometimes, recompense. Without that process, hurts can rankle and fester and erupt into their own hatreds and wrongdoings.
My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn’t do anything.
We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world’s best athletes to a fascinating place.
We believe that cloud will be based on significant open-source components that are offered as services. People don’t want to be locked into a single provider.
If someone offered me a free trip to the International Space Station, I would decline. I like Earth. I like the internet. I like Diet Coke. I have cats. I write about brave people – I’m not one of them.
I pick up what is offered to me. And if somebody is not offering me the right role and right film then I am not going to choose.
Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays… We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?
Higher costs naturally translate into fewer employers offering insurance coverage, and fewer employees accepting it, even when it is offered.
I’m going to be quite choosy about singing. If I connect to a tune and like what I am offered to sing, I’ll do it. I am an actor by profession, not a singer.
Ted Cruz is not the official spokesman for American conservatism. If you want somebody who has been out there, who has offered an alternative – the person who offered an alternative, for example, is… Paul Ryan.
