"MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures."

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Source : "Laraine Day" by Tom Vallance, www.independent.co.uk. November 13, 2007.

Laraine Day

#Roles Quotes #Break Quotes #Casts Quotes

“The earth is what we all have in common.”
“I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.”
“I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?”

Source : "Colored People: A Memoir". Book by Henry Louis Gates, therumpus.net. 1994.
“To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.”
“For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'”
“To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.”
“Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.”
“If you marry the wrong person for the wrong reasons, then no matter how hard you work, it's never going to work, because then you have to completely change yourself, completely change them, completely - by that time, you're both dead.”

Source : The Associated Press interview, 1997.

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