Nicky Whelan Quotes

A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles.

Nicky Whelan

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• I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Good
  • Me
  • Certain

• I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theater

• Being blonde, for me, means never having to say: 'I'll have the honey-striped half-head of highlights for £200,' to a bored colourist in a Mayfair salon, which is much more satisfying, not to mention cheap.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Me
  • Never
  • Bored

• I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • She
  • Want
  • Vampire

• People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers me as a blonde.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Dark
  • Hair

• I have never thought about creating an image for myself in Bollywood. I am an actor and just want to experiment with roles. I am ready to do all type of roles.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Actor
  • Roles
  • Image

• I'm a natural blonde. I was a towhead as a kid, and then it got ashier when I was 18.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Natural
  • Kid
  • Blonde

• I was very sensitive to the environment around, and this disparity in people, seeing beggars and laborers not paid well, used to disturb me. So these emotions in these roles came very naturally to me.

  

  Om Puri
  • People
  • Emotions
  • Roles

• A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Death
  • Beautiful
  • Eyes

• I've played soccer since I was five.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Soccer
  • Played
  • Five

• Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • America
  • Blonde

• I think the sophomore curse happens when you change every bit of yourself. Though my hair is blonde now, sonically it's still the same girl; conceptually it's still the same girl.

  

  Keri Hilson The Clutch
  • Girl
  • Hair
  • Blonde

• Some of the Christopher Guest movies, when I'm not really like myself, when I have my hair dyed blonde or had a faux-hawk haircut. Those I like to watch because it takes you away from your real self.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Blonde

• I'm not so interested in perfect, plastic beauty, and I think it translates in the girls I've shot over the years for Nars, from Guinevere to Iris to Mariacarla. I love those girls. I love the more interesting faces, with maybe a strange nose, not just the Texan blonde. By picking those girls, I think it's changed what I've seen in other campaigns.

  

  Francois Nars
  • Interesting
  • Perfect
  • Blonde

• You know, if I tell the press that I like long blonde hair, the next day there will be girls with long hair wigs outside waiting for me.

  

  Andy Lau
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Waiting

• I like playing an array of different roles. From the fun, comedic roles to the serious roles. It's always fun to play the role that either closely represents your own personality or the role that is completely opposite of yourself.

  

  Manika
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Serious

• This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other. It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mean

• I just wasn't picked. I'm not bitter. I'm not mad. It just means I'll get to spend more time with my wife and kids over the next three summers. I still hope they bring back the gold. I'm just honored to have played before.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Hope

• We had an episode where Bud asks his dad, I was named after the beer, right, Dad? And Ed ONeill, who played my dad, says, Uh. . . . Right, son! My theory is that Bud Bundy was named after marijuana.

  

  David Faustino
  • Dad
  • Son
  • Played

• I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • University
  • Dissertation

• I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Jazz

• This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?

  

  Leelee Sobieski
  • Life
  • Live
  • Why

• A lot of the time, in the past, I have played the pretty blonde in a lot of roles.

  

  Nicky Whelan
  • Roles
  • Played
  • Blonde