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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competitio...
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Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it'...
JOE ROGAN The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them ...
VALORIE CURRY There's so many gatekeepers to getting in front of showrunners or executives. If we pull those m...
ALLISON SCHROEDER![]()
Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's ...
LIZ PHAIR![]()
That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false.
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I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating ar...
CHER![]()
I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for ...
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We had a moment in the '40s and '50s, where female characters were very strong in film, wher...
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It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is ...
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I did not intend for there to be an incisive historical lesson in 'North and South.' Basical...
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There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you c...
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If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that's good or bad for the game, an...
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ROB MCELHENNEY There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investo...
STEVE JURVETSON![]()
There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I hav...
JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE![]()
Men and women aren't too dissimilar.
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SAOIRSE RONAN![]()
When we say there's a dearth of women directors, it's not that there's a lack of women w...
AVA DUVERNAY![]()
People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But thei...
AASIF MANDVI That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles t...
LAILA ROBINS It's very difficult for people who don't play video games to understand their power simply b...
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MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX![]()
There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.
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All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and...
AVA DUVERNAY It's hard to prove yourself when the substance isn't there in certain roles.
TRAVIS FIMMEL Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren'...
YURI LOWENTHAL There just aren't that many roles written for young women that are character-y kind of roles, especi...
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There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolut...
JAMES LOVELOCK The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues o...
TAJ MAHAL
EDIE FALCO
I think when average-size people start taking roles that were meant for dwarfs, that's a little ... VERNE TROYER There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.
SAMANTHA MATHIS
There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors o... DOROTHY FIELDS The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a...
OCTAVIA SPENCER
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women&#... SANDRA BERNHARD
People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty gi... PADMA LAKSHMI I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. ...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren&...
LAILA ROBINS
There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd nev... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY As a community, we're fighting for Asians to play Asian roles. And then there's the other ba...
ROSS BUTLER
There's an appetite for vigour in films. The camera loves a bit of movement. Movement is usually... JOANNA LUMLEY I'm getting offered roles that aren't designed for aboriginal people; they're designed f...
BRONSON PELLETIER Soaps are one of the few areas on TV that really embrace older women. In drama, there's this rid...
AMANDA DONOHOE There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfri...
HANNAH MURRAY There are some fantastic roles for women and women of a certain age on television, whether it's ...
MEGAN FOLLOWS There just aren't many little guys who are good actors. They don't get the training; they do...
KENNY BAKER
I've said this before, and I'm sure there are people who disagree, but I feel like one of th... AISHA TYLER As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something...
CAMILLA LUDDINGTON
There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media. ISSA RAE There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but al...
KRISTEN BELL It's a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.
LEE GRANT
There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're t... FIONA APPLE There aren't as many roles, and I think there's a lack of openness in casting an Asian chara...
KIMIKO GLENN There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the ...
GAL GADOT
There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstan... TOM FORD You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinar...
JOAN ARMATRADING I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong ...
MARTHA PLIMPTON
The roles that I feel I get, or handed to me, or whatever, are not that interesting. I don't thi... AUNJANUE ELLIS
There's no such thing as too late. There are different roles for different ages, assuming an act... AYELET ZURER With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got...
M. C. GAINEY There aren't that many superstars around anymore.
AL YANKOVIC
I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have... G. WILLOW WILSON
I'm drawn to roles that have real substance, that aren't just the victim or the teenage girl... LILY COLLINS
I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being... RYAN GOSLING I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl...
TARA LYNNE BARR
I want to play an action hero. I'm ready for roles that totally aren't me. KIRSTEN DUNST
Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for ... GLORIA STEINEM People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where ...
SAMANTHA RUTH PRABHU I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic fe...
WHITNEY CUMMINGS There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's...
CARMEN EJOGO
Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It'... ETHAN COEN There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don...
JOY FIELDING
For many women, and a fair number of men, saying 'I'm sorry' isn't literally an apol... DEBORAH TANNEN
With some CGI, I think the brain slightly perceives that things aren't real. There's no grav... NICK PARK Everybody's scared for their ass. There aren't too many people ready to die for racism. They...
FLORYNCE KENNEDY
I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for wome... RACHAEL TAYLOR There really aren't too many sock companies.
ROB KARDASHIAN What should a song be about? It's a trick question for songwriters because lots of amazing songs...
ADAM SCHLESINGER There aren't that many female role models in science. There are a couple of women, but mostly yo...
ELISE ANDREW
Especially in the world of fantasy and superheroes, it's great to have role models that aren'... KELLEY ARMSTRONG Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's n...
CARA BUONO I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train a...
LILY RABE What I really want to do is create great roles for women. And I'm not talking Nicholas Sparks ro...
MELISSA ROSENBERG
There aren't many downsides to being rich, other than paying taxes and having relatives asking f... BILL MURRAY I wanted to give an honest insight into a consuming Tour. It's turned out pretty interesting bec...
BRADLEY WIGGINS I am for sure a redhead and there aren't that many of us out there in music.
MELISSA AUF DER MAUR Yes, some women are funny. No, some women aren't funny. It's similar to how some women are t...
ELLIE KEMPER
It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don&... JOEL MADDEN
You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competitio... RACHEL BROSNAHAN
Comedy is really not like any other art form in that it's very specialized and varied in it'... JOE ROGAN The characters that aren't what they seem to be or women who are stronger than people give them ...
VALORIE CURRY There's so many gatekeepers to getting in front of showrunners or executives. If we pull those m...
ALLISON SCHROEDER
Women's bodies are used to sell anything and everything because it works, it grabs people's ... LIZ PHAIR
That's the thing about leaks: sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false. COLIN TREVORROW There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supporte...
SAM RICHARDS So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is...
RACHEL TRUE
I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating ar... CHER
I don't pretend there aren't biological differences, but I don't believe the desire for ... SHERYL SANDBERG
We had a moment in the '40s and '50s, where female characters were very strong in film, wher... MONICA BELLUCCI
It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is ... NATHAN MYHRVOLD
I did not intend for there to be an incisive historical lesson in 'North and South.' Basical... DAVID L. WOLPER
The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or ... TREY GOWDY
There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you c... HELEN MIRREN There's something that's sexy about a guy who has the strength to kill somebody, but is also...
EVAN PETERS But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either i...
PATRICK MARBER
How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fig... BRAD PITT Very often, people will come out and say, 'Greeks aren't doing things, Greeks aren't mak...
GEORGE PAPANDREOU
If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that's good or bad for the game, an... AL MICHAELS
I like people more undone than made up. Patricia Arquette is the ultimate. She's not anorexic or... KIRSTEN DUNST What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. ...
MADHURI DIXIT Some people think that there aren't many Aboriginal actors around, and if there are, they're...
DEBORAH MAILMAN It just so happens that people aren't doing comedy about abortion or cannibalism or waterboardin...
ROB MCELHENNEY There aren't many sources of money in San Diego, apart from local partnerships and local investo...
STEVE JURVETSON
There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I hav... JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE
Men and women aren't too dissimilar. CHRIS EVANS Vampire teeth really aren't very efficient, are they? It looks very messy. I'm not sure it&#...
SAOIRSE RONAN
When we say there's a dearth of women directors, it's not that there's a lack of women w... AVA DUVERNAY
People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But thei... AASIF MANDVI That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles t...
LAILA ROBINS It's very difficult for people who don't play video games to understand their power simply b...
BING GORDON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX
There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom. NIALL FERGUSON
All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and... AVA DUVERNAY It's hard to prove yourself when the substance isn't there in certain roles.
TRAVIS FIMMEL Man, it's hard to beat having gotten to play Superman. But where do you go from there? Aren'...
YURI LOWENTHAL There just aren't that many roles written for young women that are character-y kind of roles, especi...
ANNA FARIS
There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolut... JAMES LOVELOCK The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues o...
TAJ MAHAL
The content I create reflects my personality: goofy, fun, positive, a bit clumsy, family-friendly, e... 
Just to see if I liked vlogging, I uploaded a video of my sister and I cleaning up a river in a cano... 
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