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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The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.
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Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.
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We go to Europe, and they think we're totally prejudiced 'cause we hang the bars and stripes. But for us, the bars and stripes doesn't mean we want to see anybody in slavery or anything like that. It's just our heritage. To us, the bars and stripes means grits, 'y'all,' and the beauty of the South. There's no prejudice at all in that with us.
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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.
