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.

  

  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

• I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Voice
  • Audience
  • Playing

• It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Want
  • You
  • Rule

• I'm one of the lucky few who never had to face the whole 'Oh, you've had a baby, and now work will have to suffer' bit. It just wasn't a big deal when I got married and had a baby.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Work
  • Baby
  • Lucky

• Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • Mind
  • Running
  • Rogues

• Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change. If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.

  

  Adrien Brody
  • Job
  • Change
  • Joke

• 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