People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.
Women have taken on traditionally masculine roles and professions, and there is no real equivalent for men. Men are still extremely reluctant, as we all are reluctant to see them, take on traditionally feminine roles or professions. That is just not something that they do easily.
The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.
Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.
It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing to quit the rat race, to drop out, to refuse to run any further--that is the work of the individualist. It is offensive because it is impolite it makes the rebuke personal the individualist calls not his or her behavior into question, but mine.
What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.
Maybe playing around and having fun is considered being a rat... I guess I'm a rat.
A lot of people live with no apparent means of support. I kind of envy the musicians up there. You're down here, busting your ass in Hollywood, and it's like Lily Tomlin's joke about the rat race - all you prove in the end is that you're a rat.
If I had chosen to act only as a heroine then I would have disappeared from the scene long ago. So, I decided to take up comedienne roles, so I survived in the industry for nearly five decades.
The rat race is real. I was part of the rat race.
The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact, a very long poem in "heroic couplets". If something is called an essay, it should be an essay.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Just because it's a rat race doesn't mean it's okay to be a rat.
People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat.
Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.