"I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring."

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Jayson Blair

#Race Quotes #Roles Quotes #Action Quotes

“How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.”

Source : "Genteel Giant". Interview with Pamela Bock, www.backstage.com. October 8, 2003.
“As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.”
“People have said that I said I hate television. I never did say that. What I said was that I hated a lot of stuff that was on television. It's nothing about the medium itself.”
“Women believe -- or at least often pretend to believe -- that all our tenderness for them springs from desire; that we love them when we have not for a time enjoyed them, and dismiss them when we are sated, or to express it more precisely, exhausted. There is no truth in this idea, though it may be made to appear true. When we are rigid with desire, we are apt to pretend a great tenderness in the hope of satisfying that desire; but at no other time are we in fact so liable to treat women brutally, and so unlikely to feel any deep emotion but one.”
“If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.”
“It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You have less to work with. It's like trying to build a house-if you have unlimited resources, you're in much better shape than if you get two bricks, a hammer, and a bent nail.”
“I am not an economic determinist. If I were, I would throw up my hands; I just would not bother. I think it's wrong to be an economic determinist. I think it's wrong to simply say, "Well, inevitably, if you're poor, you're going to get a lousy education; if you're lower-middle class, the cards are going to be stacked against you, and you'll probably never get anywhere."”
“Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.”

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