Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.
I want more awareness of humanity in this world.
For me, I believe that just seeing women be strong and tough is not answering the question of what a female hero looks like. Women have their own set of skills that are worth exploring and seeing on screen.
Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.
I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.
I feel like it's too easy to just say, "We'll just change the name of this male character to a female, but have her do all the same things that a male does. " I don't believe in that. I think there's something else. I think there's more to women than that.
I had started acting when I was 7, and I was always wrong. I would always get to the very end [of the audition], but I wasn't a perfect package of one thing. I wasn't a cliche, and it always worked against me. I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl. Then there was a TV show that Toni Collette was starring in. And when a role to play a girl who was struggling with identity came, I thought: "Oh, this is what I was supposed to do. Everything's leading up to this moment. " I was 18. I was like, "This is it. " I didn't get it. And I was devastated.
The bottom line is, I tend to be going back to older and older music.
What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. . . . 'Finn?' '"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. " (quoting Patrick Lagrange)
You can't get fit in one workout, just as you can't live your life in one day.
Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.