I have always refused to do something that has offended me. I have been offered potential roles that are totally vulgar.
My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.
My father died. No one from this industry came to offer condolences to my house. No one offered few words to console me. Why should I continue in this cruel film world? I am discontinuing my acting career.
In the kind of films offered to me, I don’t even get the role of a city-based college girl. How do I let people know I can do sophisticated, contemporary roles, too?
I don’t get offered many comedies.
Modeling is just one of those things that goes along with acting. When it’s offered, it’s hard to say no, because it’s fun.
It’s been two years since I am off television, but I am constantly being offered roles for TV projects. People from the TV industry continue to be kind to me.
I’ve got quite a big fan base, and people like to see you do the same thing – that’s why you get offered the same roles.
The Tamil industry, while being better than all the other film industries when it comes to treating female actors, is still dominated by men. So, I can only work within the space offered to heroines, and I think I am doing that.
I didn’t need tempting back to the theatre. It’s always been something I’d wanted to do again and again and again, but with every job, you can only take what’s in front of you or what’s offered.
I’ve been offered all the usual, ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ and the like, but the one thing I know is that for me to be good, I’ve got to absolutely love doing something. And you can’t dance the foxtrot half-hearted.
I’ve passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was offered a feature on a Christina Aguilera song and I turned it down. It just wasn’t right. She’s cool, but it just wasn’t right.
After my cancer diagnosis this year, I was offered a choice of treatments. I wanted to make an informed decision. This meant reading scientific papers. Had I not used the stolen material provided by Sci-Hub, it would have cost me thousands.
I was thrust, excitingly, via ‘Elizabeth’ and ‘Shakespeare in Love,’ into a position one can only dream of, but it was startling, too. I was offered a multitude of roles riding horses in flouncy shirts, and I just thought, ‘Hang on, I’ve just done that. What next?’
For me as a Welsh actor, Richard Burton is one of my biggest idols. And I’ve got so many: Peter O’Toole, Laurence Olivier and Oliver Reed. If they got ‘Hunky Dory’ and ‘Citadel’ offered to them, they would do completely different jobs on both of them.
I took parts that either I was offered or felt I could do a good job with.
I’m either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I’m offered.
I’ve definitely read stuff that I’ve been offered where I’ve been like, ‘I can’t do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me.’ I don’t want to do something if I don’t feel like I can do a good job serving the material.
I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film’s future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.
I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I’d planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.
If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations – and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.
In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people… and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.
I admired Margaret Thatcher – while abhorring much of what she offered – because she was so clearly a leader of huge substance. Blair was the dismal opposite.
I want to do anything interesting that is offered to me.
I was talking to different labels: Columbia, RCA , Epic. I decided not to sign with Epic even after L.A. Reid offered me a crazy deal.
I have purchased a flat in Malad, but that is not with my ‘Bigg Boss’ prize. I had bought it with my earnings that were released by producers of ‘Bhabhiji Ghar Pe Hain’ just before I was offered ‘Bigg Boss.’
We were offered 100 ‘Sgt. Pepper’ shows in Las Vegas with a huge back-end.
In America, I am brown; I’m ‘of colour’, so I would be offered Latin roles, and I’ve fought against that. I don’t want to be put in a category, to be just offered the same sort of thing. For me, it’s all about different roles, telling the stories of the great writers.
Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a year – more than Dad paid his own staff – for inventing cheese recipes and writing leaflets at the Dutch Dairy Bureau in London.
When I really young yet feeling very old, I offered up a lot of myself to the press; I knew it was good copy.
I’m not looking to set a standard… but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.
When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.
‘Headhunters’ was a breakthrough film for me, internationally, and I got offered a lot of scripts from Hollywood – a lot of heightened hero movies.
In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available – AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
Actors are at the mercy of roles that are offered.
I have consciously not taken the role of a gangster, which has been offered to me far too many times.
I used to get 2000 as pocket money, and I was being offered a car and an opportunity to make lakhs, so I said a yes. I was a kid and got homesick over my 40-day schedule in Bangalore and decided that I would only do films in the South if they were 10-day roles.
The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There’s not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what’s being offered.
The Internet really offered a space for me to thrive.
Hell would freeze over before I would do a reality show. I’ve been offered everything you could possibly imagine, and it just doesn’t interest me. You certainly won’t see me dancing on TV.
I’m friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the setup. I don’t want to see it. I just want to go, ‘God, how did you do that?’
If I am offered a biopic on a person people know almost everything about, what is the point doing it? A film on someone about whom very less is known is something that would interest me.
I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people.
Sometimes you just can’t walk away from films you’re offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.
When I told my doctor I couldn’t afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers.
A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn’t find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.
I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I’m willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.
What many people don’t realise is the first F1 test I was offered by Frank Williams and the team was a one-off. It was never planned that I would become part of the team or it would lead to more.
People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can’t get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
Around 2005, UFC offered me a chance to fight for them. But, at that moment, I was under contract with NJPW, and I decided to stay in pro-wrestling. It was a good opportunity, but I don’t regret my choice.
On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. They carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
We don’t get offered roles because of who we are but because of what we delivered in the past.
The benefits that were offered to me as a congressman don’t even compare to the benefits that you get as a state employee.
