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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It has nothing to do with the emotional demands of a role; I've done comedies that are as draining to me as any drama.
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For me, playing simply is dribbling. For me, playing one or two touches is harder. Playing simply is the most difficult thing.
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Slavery takes so many forms, as it is interwoven within legal industries and is embedded into the supply chain.
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I give thanks for ever increasing health, youth and beauty.
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What else is stop and frisk? These neighborhoods are unsafe not because there's not enough cops illegally frisking people. They're not safe because of economic conditions. They're not safe because of all types of things in the government that people like Mike Bloomberg and Ray Kelly should be looking to fix instead of randomly searching kids in the hood. If you go to a college campus and you do stop and frisk, you're going to find a lot of drugs there, too.
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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.
