I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in ‘Up in the Air.’ I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character.
I’m in a place in my life where I get offered parts that I didn’t get offered before – fathers and uncles and grandfathers and so on. And it took me a long time to get to that place, but I’m glad because it opens up new territory.
I’ve done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
I have never written a book about my life, despite being offered purses of gold. I made ‘Boxes’ because I wanted to make a sincere depiction of a daughter who has lost her father, or the jealousy one can feel towards a daughter who has become more beautiful than you and whose stepfather starts to take her shopping.
I would love to do a Bond song, and I could have done a Bond song: I was offered a Bond theme, but I turned it down because I didn’t like the song. But as it turned out, I was right anyway because the song was the only Bond theme that never became a hit, so I’m glad I wasn’t associated with that!
Every time I’ve been offered a new job, I’ve automatically said, ‘Oh, I don’t think you want me for that job.’ It’s sort of a weird female – or, at least, it is in me – a weird female defense, when, in fact, what you want to do is scream, ‘Hooray, I want to do this!’
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one’s own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
I just get offered a lot more work in America than I do in Britain.
I would like to do a science fiction film some day. Star Wars seems really to have destroyed the genre, which at one time offered great musical opportunities.
Harvard Law provided an opportunity to learn from a faculty that had shaped the laws of our country and helped to change the world around us. It also offered an opportunity to study with the brightest students and to test myself against the best.
In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.
What is political correctness, if not essentially redemptive speech? Soon liberalism had become a cultural identity that offered Americans a way to think of themselves as decent people. To be liberal was to be good.
Jindal’s record in Louisiana is controversial, in part because, in a state which has historically favored patronage culture and a bureaucracy that offered uninterrupted employment for those who backed the right horse, he aimed to destroy the old spoils system.
I did a lot of musicals when I was young and finally went to drama school to try and get away from doing musicals… and of course the first thing that happened when I got out is I got offered a musical. And then when I got to the Royal Shakespeare Company, which was my next job, I ended up doing a bloody musical!
Johnson Publishing offered me an opportunity to build back iconic brands like ‘Ebony’ and ‘Jet’ magazines.
If I’d just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered after ‘Soapstar Superstar,’ made a quick covers album and probably had some success for five minutes. I decided that wasn’t for me.
It’s nice when I get offered small parts. But I really think that ‘SNL’ is what my skill set is best designed for.
For some reason, I always get offered plays when I’m doing plays and then, if I stop doing them, people stop asking me.
The way it works in Hollywood is that if you’re hot it doesn’t matter if you’re right for the part or not, you’re just offered it.
I turned down a film that was offered to me in the very early ’80s, a Scorsese film. That probably wasn’t a good career move.
The age of access being offered by taxi-hailing apps like Uber and Ola is the biggest potential threat to auto industry.
I think what people are looking for right now is not the kind of pizzazz and pop that perhaps we thought we got in 2008. Certainly, President Obama offered that. What they want now is someone who can work closely with Congress and get things done.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.
I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered.
I was offered the role of the Reverse Flash on ‘The Flash’ by Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg and Greg Berlanti, who co-created the series with Andrew. I said ‘yes’ immediately because I had worked with those guys before on the show ‘Eli Stone.’
Joining ‘ER,’ I felt like that kid who got the golden ticket in ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.’ I’ve been offered chocolate bars all these years, but there had been no golden ticket. Just the stomachache that was called ‘Jake in Progress.’
Part of the attraction of the SEAL teams was the incredible tests that it offered.
You’ll be offered the ‘lead’ in this new hot film with such-and-such A-list director, ‘a fabulous part’ – a fabulous part? A fabulous part is a character with a soul, who starts here and goes to there, you know? There aren’t many of those.
Originating something is what every actor waits for. Usually, those opportunities are offered to people who already have a name.
Nobody from my label called any of their labels to get this done. Most of it happened very naturally. Mary and I have been friends for a long time. Then Jay-Z offered.
I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn’t written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
Canada should always open its doors to those who are oppressed or in cases of emergency. When Canada offered refuge to 50,000 boat people in Vietnam in the 1970s, I was particularly proud to be Canadian.
She had said one time, make a choice and do it like Hercules. So if that is all of what is being offered, the idea is to always do it like Hercules and I always followed her advise and now I’m here talking to you.
We also never undercut representatives’ prices. A representative will always be able to sell the discounts in our core business, which are not offered at retail. So it’s never more advantageous to buy there.
From the moment I became a free agent, the WWE opportunity was the one I wanted. Obviously, there were strong plays made by some other companies, but in the end, when WWE offered me an opportunity, I could not turn it down.
I swore I would never do a reality show. I’ve been offered them for years and years because our family life is a little crazy – I will admit to that. Definitely not the conventional mom or family – or anything, for that matter.
I was offered ‘I’m A Celebrity…’ for a lot of money, but I don’t like the level of degradation.
The conservatory professors thought everything should sound like French and German symphonies. But to my ear, bouzouki songs, which tell the sufferings and heartaches of ordinary people, offered a way to make classical music available not just to the upper classes.
I haven’t only been offered Hasidic roles.
I started out Ice skating with ‘Holiday On Ice’ and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.
While the Assads are despotic, George H.W. Bush made the father an ally in Desert Storm, and Ehud Barak offered to return to Hafez Assad the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal.
Everything that I think that a society should offer someone, which is nothing other than the ability to be able to do what you wanna do, is offered by America.
I get offered a lot of the same type of thing… The teenage slasher movies.
If I did things for the money, I’d have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and ‘Police Academy 6,’ which I was asked to write.
I’ve been so blessed since doing ‘I’m A Celebrity’… It has changed my life, and I just want to keep on being offered fun projects like ‘The Jump’ to do.
I love the TV show, and if you make a bad movie it means you’ve soiled it. Just like if we made an advert. We were offered so many times and I’d say, look, this is the good thing, and you can’t compromise that, because then you compromise the integrity of the characters.
We read of the courageous march south to battle the Confederate Army by the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Unlike their white counterparts, they understood from the beginning that they would be offered no quarter if captured alive.
I was not the only journalist to whom Trump offered gifts clearly meant to shape coverage. Many reporters have told me that Trump worked hard to offer them something fabulous – from hotel rooms to rides on his 757.
In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.
When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss.
The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.
I think Roland read ‘Primal Scream’ first and then gave it to me. This was, I think, even prior to ‘The Graduate’ days. We both got heavily into and it offered a lot of questions about how screwed up our home life was.
