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.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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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.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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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.
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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.'
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Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.
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I stopped playing in Jr. events when I was 12 and played women's.
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I have always found myself playing the hero, but I love villains. Villains have more fun.
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My whole career I'm used to playing a lot of games.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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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.
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Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
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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.
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If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.
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Each role that I've played has had a piece of a dream role in it.
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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
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I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.
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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.
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Questions are taken for granted rather than given a starring role in the human drama. Yet all my teaching and consulting experience has taught me that what builds a relationship, what solves problems, what moves things forward is asking the right questions.
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Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.
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I dubbed for 'Nannaku Prematho' because in that film, I was doing a London-based character, and even if some mistake happens with pronunciation, people would excuse it.
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The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.
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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.
