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

• Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Chance
  • Chaos
  • Incident

• I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

  

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  • Death
  • Agree
  • Defend

• I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.

  

  Fiona Gubelmann
  • Acting
  • Loved
  • Year

• My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• I never imagined it wouldn't work out for me. I had that absolute certainty in myself that has seen me through, I think, and my parents were absolutely behind me all the way.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Parents
  • Workout
  • Imagined

• 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