If I'm going to be honest about it, I think men get to do this sort of thing all the time. You look at countless performances by great male actors who get to play the whole gamut of human emotions. Women aren't regularly allowed to do that, and I don't know why people are so frightened by it.
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I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS.... MAGIC JOHNSON I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I&... EDDIE MARSAN Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because i... JAY-Z If I'm going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don't do it at all. AL-WALEED BIN TALAL With the exception of octopus, I don't think I've met any food that I didn't like. And b... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON There are people that have that confidence, who march into VIP areas. I assume I won't get in. I... CHRIS LOWE I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets peopl... DYLAN MORAN I think there's a big price to pay for consciousness, knowing that it's all going to end and... DANA CARVEY 'West Side Story' I used to watch all the time - I don't know why. Well, I do - it's... CHARLIE ROWE I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be... DREE HEMINGWAY I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing ... ELON MUSK I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'T... ZARA LARSSON 'Black' is an adjective, in my book, and the way I use it, sometimes I'll say 'black... THURGOOD MARSHALL I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway. LARRY WALL I do feel almost violent when I'm watching things that I don't think are good enough. I get ... LINDSAY DUNCAN I don't think of myself as a romantic person; I'm kind of more rough and tumble, I think. Th... PAUL WALKER Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I al... CRISTIN MILIOTI You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to... JEFF FITZGERALD Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what... SHIA LABEOUF I think women in Hollywood who don't do Botox and plastic surgery are revered. I revere them... ... EVANGELINE LILLY I don't have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could ... NICOLE HOLOFCENER For me, if I'm going to do a play, I prefer to do something with language that I don't get t... DAVID DENMAN If you don't read it, you don't know. I mean, that's why I have a PR team. They read it ... ANNE WOJCICKI It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie c... VAL KILMER It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh... CLARENCE THOMAS I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature... ANDY SERKIS What I get really excited about are movies that I connect with emotionally. 'Deliverance' wa... KATIE ASELTON I draw hundreds and hundreds of pictures of sort of gnarly looking men, so I don't know what tha... DYLAN MORAN To be honest with you, I don't male-bash. I don't believe in male-bashing. I write about thi... CHERRELLE Naturally, my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men w... ALICE MUNRO I don't think many people get to play big emotions in life. DAN STEVENS I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous w... EDDIE VEDDER I don't want to get married - I've been there and done that. So I know what I'm talking ... LONI LOVE It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want t... BARBARA MANDRELL As I grew up, I always refused to cook Indian food very vehemently, and to this day, I don't coo... GURINDER CHADHA I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're d... EDDIE MARSAN I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear o... YVONNE STRAHOVSKI There just aren't many little guys who are good actors. They don't get the training; they do... KENNY BAKER I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get thi... ED SHEERAN If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how p... JIM LEHRER I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'... CARLOS SANTANA Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs,... ELLIE GOULDING I don't care who anybody sleeps with. If a couple has been together all that time - and there ar... BETTY WHITE Do you know what the world will be saved by? I'll tell you. It'll be saved by the human spir... SHERWIN B. NULAND I don't know why, but I'm an easy target. And I don't do anything to dispel it. TED MCGINLEY I don't know that I'm going to entirely do cloth diapers. I'd like to be ambitious about... LISA LING As far as I'm aware, you can't tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant script... EMILY BERRINGTON I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't k... GLORIA VANDERBILT I don't play golf or tennis, I don't ski, I don't snowboard. If you love what you do, yo... FRANKIE VALLI I'm always amazed to hear of air crash victims so badly mutilated that they have to be identifie... PAUL MERTON Personally, I don't think we could do such a show if we didn't get along. The subtext of all... KRISTIN DAVIS I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering abou... NATE RUESS Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bull... KAT GRAHAM I don't understand why people don't use improvisation, especially in comedy films, but also,... ALICE LOWE I don't believe in angels and I have trouble with the whole God thing. I don't want to say I... BILLY CONNOLLY You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't g... LORRAINE BRACCO I say have the night and give people the awards, but why do people want to watch people win awards? ... KARL PILKINGTON I am the 'Cosmic Dancer' who dances his way out of the womb and into the tomb on 'Electr... MARC BOLAN I think the pageant system is about empowering women. I think that aspect of it is great, but when y... OLIVIA CULPO I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They&... ODELL BECKHAM, JR. Women are wonderful, but they get so caught up about their body. We need to unhook from worrying so ... NATALIE GOLDBERG All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid ... BRUCE COCKBURN You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, an... CASEY STENGEL You have to determine what you are and send the messages out to people, like, 'Hey, I'm a sc... ZACH GALLIGAN I'm not going to throw chairs; I'm not going to cuss. I'm not going to do that kind of s... ANDRE WARD It doesn't matter how much polite self-deprecating fluff you have on the outside if you don'... REBECCA HALL From my experience, I would say no: actors of East Asian descent don't get the opportunities whi... GEMMA CHAN That's great because I know as a teenager, I didn't relate to a TV series where all people d... CAROLINE DHAVERNAS Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know ... DAN QUAYLE I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over r... JASON NEWSTED I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for love... OLIVIA WILLIAMS I've always slightly envied other actors I know who have different reputations. I think, 'Go... MARTIN FREEMAN I'm proud of myself. I could break and go get all this plastic surgery and get my nose fixed and... KHLOE KARDASHIAN I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't ... JOAQUIN PHOENIX I think I don't really have any expectations; I don't look at the season as a whole - I look... CASEY STONER Don't try to be young. Just open your mind. Stay interested in stuff. There are so many things I... BETTY WHITE It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married,... JOHN CUSACK I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. A... RAFAEL PALMEIRO I'm not one of those actors who gets so taken by a role that I can't live my life. I'm t... BILLY PORTER When I get moved to write a story, I don't question the story. I dive right in, and I try to ign... DAVID BERGEN
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REBECCA SOLNIT What are you doing?” Alecto asked in surprise, stepping back. Laughing brightly, she dragged him t... REBECCA MCNUTT She dug into one of the boxes, finding clay angels she’d made in art class when she was seven year... REBECCA MCNUTT Winters are a desolate time where all senses are wiped away, and here in Canada, this is especially ... REBECCA MCNUTT The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me. REBECCA MCKINSEY Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space. REBECCA WEST The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. REBECCA WEST Man is a hating rather than a loving animal. REBECCA WEST I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone... REBECCA SOLNIT I haven't heard of any cases of anti-American blog posts being censored or bloggers encountering... REBECCA MACKINNON I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into n... REBECCA MILLER Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolu... REBECCA MACKINNON In the nineteenth century, in part because a ton of American men moved west, in part because of the ... REBECCA TRAISTER You scare me, Ryan Daley. Even more than those demons outside that scream for my death. How is it th... REBECCA LIM I think this industry can be tough on everyone. You have to surround yourself with supportive people... REBECCA FERGUSON It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and i... REBECCA MACKINNON Tell me again about the girl whose hands have no color. Whose hands are completely white. ... REBECCA WADLINGER Farm Aid was started in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews as a co... REBECCA PIDGEON A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting... REBECCA WEST Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. Yo... REBECCA MCNUTT Credibility is a basic survival tool. REBECCA SOLNIT As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering... REBECCA SOLNIT Even in democratic society, we don't have good answers how to balance the need for security on o... REBECCA MACKINNON Human freedom increasingly depends on who controls what we know and, therefore, how we understand ou... REBECCA MACKINNON One reason that we have collectively plugged our ears against a decade of dismal revelations about B... REBECCA TRAISTER Companies should have a due diligence process to determine the likelihood that their technologies wi... REBECCA MACKINNON People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a pr... REBECCA WEST