Tommy Davidson Quotes

I do so many roles, I can't be typecast.

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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 don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Character
  • Me
  • Roles

• I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Father
  • Friend

• I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • World
  • Play
  • Language

• I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Action
  • Playing

• 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 am done with the cliched heroine roles. I can't go to work without a challenge. I want to do films that drive me, films in which I am a part of the main plot.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Work
  • Roles
  • Films

• 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

• But as far as dream roles - I know this is so expected of me, but I would to play Elphaba in 'Wicked' on Broadway. I have a lot of dream roles, but that's like my main one because of the vocal track. I love belting high things!

  

  Ariana Grande
  • High
  • Dream
  • Roles

• There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Knows
  • Doe
  • Roles

• 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
  • Joy

• It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • World
  • Looks
  • Roles

• It's hard to find black roles that are just whimsical and fun and colorful. And I think, in many ways, that can be just as powerful in making commentary about race through movies.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • Fun
  • Black
  • Powerful

• I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

  

  Bela Lugosi
  • Earth
  • Interesting
  • Play

• In 2009, I didn't like that Yamaha signed such a young and competitive teammate [Jorge Lorenzo]. But now everything is different. We are more mature. Everyone knows his role and position. Things are clear.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Different
  • Roles
  • Teammate

• I think there's an opportunity for a couple of them for sure, maybe more depending upon the situation, but it's too early to say which ones. It's a pretty competitive fight. And that doesn't mean the older guys are just going to walk into spots. I remind them all the time - you got to earn everything you get. And that's what made our team good last year, is guys really competed for opportunities and understood their roles.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Want
  • Choices
  • Feels

• O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • Work
  • Women
  • Force

• When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Attention
  • Musician
  • Roles

• I got really good input up until the age of 11, which is perfect. That's when adolescence starts, when I would have really wanted to rebel. Up until that point, though, it didn't feel like doctrine, and it gave me a great moral structure.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Marriage is made out to be so important for girls but the focus has to shift at some point from marriage to the real challenges of life which are the same for women and men, so we have to prepare our girls just the way we prepare our boys.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Men
  • Important

• I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • World
  • She
  • Feel

• I've been YouTube surfing a lot lately so I'll Shazam a song that I find or some s - - and type that in on YouTube and just go through all the relateds for it. So it's been a lot of random jazz s - - lately. Like I found Lonnie Liston Smith, and Ahmad Jamal, s - - like that. So that's been very tight.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Song
  • Random
  • Surfing

• I do so many roles, I can't be typecast.

  

  Tommy Davidson
  • Roles
  • Typecast