Birgitte Hjort Sorensen Quotes

If you go for an audition, you have a character description, and for the women, it's always about being beautiful, sexy. And for the men it's more about the character than how he appears physically. That annoys me.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

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• If you go for an audition, you have a character description, and for the women, it's always about being beautiful, sexy. And for the men it's more about the character than how he appears physically. That annoys me.

  

  Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Character