A Quote by Simone de Beauvoir

The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Longer Person Possess Retired Role

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Simone de Beauvoir
French - Writer
January 9, 1908 - April 14, 1986

I suspect if people live a lot longer they would be retired for a somewhat longer period of time. Just the financial planning takes on a very different character.

Peter Thiel

You know, I just tend to grow my beard out for 'Parks and Rec.' As an actor it's always easier to shave or cut your hair for a role, but it's hard to put fake hair on or grow hair for a role. When you look at pictures of me, the longer my hair is, the longer my facial hair is, that's just the longer I haven't gotten a job.

Chris Pratt

Every time I work with a European director, I find they hire the person that captures the spirit of the role. Americans tend to hire the best face. The person that looks more like the role, whether they can perform the role or not is a bonus.

Elizabeth Pena

Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.

Italo Calvino

It's not that I'm retired; I just no longer accept acting work.

Jamie Lee Curtis

It's not that I'm retired, I just no longer accept acting work.

Jamie Lee Curtis

The person who does that role better than anyone else is the person who should get that role, regardless of their background or heritage.

Chita Rivera

I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work.

Vilmos Zsigmond

I think that I've still not been successful at playing the role of the retired actor, and I'd like to work on that.

Sean Penn

To be a responsible person is to find one's role in the building of shalom, the re-webbing of God, humanity and all creation in justice, harmony, fulfillment and delight. To be a responsible person is to find one's own role and then, funded by the grace of God, to fill this role and to delight in it.

Cornelius Plantinga

It's not often that you get a chance in one role to do the glamour bit and then strip off all the makeup and reveal the real person beneath the façade. Usually, it's either a glamorous role or a raw, emotional role.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

Love is disgusting when you no longer possess yourself.

Pola Negri

Musically, what happened was this: I retired twice. I retired after The Black Crowes, and I retired after Brand New Immortals. Then, we started buying real estate, which really took up my time. I was busy. I was still teaching yoga, but I was mostly busy running business, and I was fine. I was happy.