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"392 Profession Quotes

As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.

About Actor Correct Do The Right Thing
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I have to work extra hard because I am dyslexic. People said that I couldn't be an actress, but I'm proving them wrong. Acting has helped me overcome the challenge.

Acting Actress Am Because
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

Always Been Just Making
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When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

Apology Body Care Characters
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Sweat is good
Sweat Good
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Images of this covid virus are so ugly.

Ugly Images Virus Covid
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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.

Ambition Beauty Woman Problem
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I do it, I don't want no permission

Permission Do it
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

Basically Like Musical Plumbing
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I enjoy my work. I haven't been an actor for 30 years without getting pleasure out of the profession.

Actor Been Enjoy Getting
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
Actor Capitalist Exploited Less
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A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

Actor His Hundreds Knowledge
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Money don't make me I make money

Money Me Make money
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When you hold important offices, be wise. Don't confuse friends of that office for your friends.
Offices Be wise Friends Important
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Don't act like you are rich. Be yourself, not an actor.

Rich Actor Be yourself
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Everyone knows what to do until they get a chance to do it.

Chance Everyone Do it
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There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

Kinds People Work Credit
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I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.

Think Basically Lazy Housewife
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It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

Comedy Drama Extremes Great
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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Adult Asking Childish Persist
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In my position when things are going well it's pretty easy to say that I'm sort of the guy that fixes everything. But if things are going bad then I'm the one that gets all the blame. In the end, we all do it together.

Bad Blame Easy End
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I think at a club like Liverpool you always feel a bit of pressure. You should. But it doesn't bother me.

Always Bit Bother Club
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We can do what we love to do and also to play for Liverpool - they are such a big club. You need to enjoy it but the pressure will always be there.

Also Always Big Club
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I've been DJing since I was in high school.

Been High High School School
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When you're working as an actor, you don't think that when you get out of school, it's going to be so hard to get a job. Just to get a job. Any job. Whatsoever. You don't think that people are going to see you in a certain way.

Actor Any Certain Certain Way
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I've been online doing all kinds of research and that seems to be the constant criticism, that Aibileen's accent was just too thick. And for me, I don't want anything to distract from the character.

Accent Anything Been Character
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I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Accent Accents Accessible Adjust
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Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.

Actor Behind I Can Job
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I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

Because Characters Feel I Think
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I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

Actor Deal Doing I Love
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The reason I became an actress is because I wanted my acting to reflect life as it is. I want to put truth on the screen. I want real women to see real women on the screen.

Acting Actress Became Because
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I've always felt like I was an actor for hire. And almost apologetic for being a woman of color, trying to stifle that voice. But I don't feel that way in Shondaland. I feel like I am accepted into a world where I'm a part of the narrative - I'm a part of it.

Accepted Actor Almost Always
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I always feel terrified whenever I put my work out there to be seen, to be scrutinized. I think it's a very vulnerable thing that we are asked to do.

Always Asked Feel I Think
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When a character has so many secrets and so much inner life, it's a joy to play those characters because you can use your craft.

Because Character Characters Craft
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I don't care if someone is new to acting or experienced in acting: you always learn something from them. It's just like people in life - whether they're young or middle-aged or old, you always learn something from someone.

Acting Always Care Don't Care
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Every job I've ever gotten has transformed me in some way as an actor.
Actor Ever Every Gotten
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I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

Any Formula Great More
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No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.

Even Feel Get He
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I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

Cringe Critics Master Novel
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I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

Courage Embody Feel Fight
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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

Artist Became Educating IPod
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

Beauty Fashion Fashion Industry Industry
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Egos are an occupational hazard in acting, but I don't have much of one, and my husband doesn't have much of one, so it's good.

Acting Egos Good Hazard
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You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny, and all the things that a person could be. If you can achieve that, you feel great. You so rarely get to do that as an actress in general, but as a black actress, it's almost never.

Able Achieve Actress Almost
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.

Been Being Cultures Designers
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I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish. A lot of lawyers or doctors who have names but absolutely no lives. You're going to get your three or four scenes; you're not going to be able to show what you can do.

Able Absolutely Been Doctors
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To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.

Depend Father Form Less
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We have our factory, which is called a stage. We make a product, we color it, we title it and we ship it out in cans.

Cans Color Factory Make
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I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.

Being Being There Best Create
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I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.

Ballpark Batman Character Crowd
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