Sanaa Lathan (Sanaa McCoy Lathan) Quotes

If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.

Sanaa Lathan

• Playing
• Role
• Original

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Me
  • Born
  • Playing

• The cop in 'Dhruva' had to be much more agile, far more fit and alert than any role I had played so far. I built the body that the role required. If it's been appreciated, I am glad.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Body
  • Role
  • Fit

• But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Place
  • Playing

• There's still a role for the Association for Israel Studies. But not as the endpoint of scholarship and not as a fortress to defend Israel.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Role
  • Israel
  • Scholarship

• I still have my old Nintendo 64 that works. And I hook it up, and I still play the original 'Goldeneye.' I'm that geek. I have an 'NBA Jam' arcade machine in my office at 'SNL.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Up
  • Play
  • Old

• I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Women
  • Playing
  • Events

• I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Hero

• My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Career
  • Games
  • Playing

• I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Playing
  • Started
  • Trumpet

• When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • True
  • Person
  • Playing

• Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Role
  • Bee
  • Dinosaur

• Whenever I am acting, it's everything, you know. If I'm researching a role, I'm completely consumed in that and, between action and cut, I live in this suspended time.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Time
  • Live
  • Action

• If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Playing
  • Not Interested

• Each role that I've played has had a piece of a dream role in it.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Dream
  • Role
  • Had

• I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.

  

  Young Buck
  • Playing
  • Just
  • Started

• I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Life
  • Role
  • Motherhood

• Playing for 14 years definitely took its toll mentally. I decided when I was playing my last season that when I retired from football I would never go back into it, and I've never regretted that decision.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • Football
  • Decision
  • Playing

• I'm never really conscious of saying, "I'm going to take on a specific role to combat a certain image in the public eye." I think that's pretty manipulative and transparent to the public anyway.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Pretty
  • Role
  • Conscious

• Imaginatively challenged folks, for whom crossing a state line amounted to foreign travel, could not conceive that the gray-blue-eyes inspecting them had, over the past year, similarly scrutinized Nandi warriors, Arab mullahs, Magyar landowners, French marshals, Prussian academics, and practically every monarch or minister of consequence in Europe--not to mention the maquettes in Rodin's studio, and whatever dark truths flickered in the gaze of dying lions.

  

  Edmund Morris
  • Travel
  • Truths
  • Folks

• Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

  

  Aaron Belz
  • Fun
  • Surprise
  • Alternatives

• With certain projects, there are delays, and with others, things come together very quickly. It can be frustrating but it's not uncommon, and you just have to keep a lot of things juggling and hoping all of these projects will go when all the pieces fall into place. You just have to be ready for whatever catches fire.

  

  Barbara Crampton
  • Fire
  • Projects
  • Frustrating

• If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.

  

  Sanaa Lathan
  • Playing
  • Role
  • Original