Hollywood is difficult to navigate if you have integrity, so I opted not to work if there wasn't enough to do in a role, which doesn't have to do with the role's size.
Interpretation
Integrity in Hollywood can be challenging, leading one to choose roles carefully based on quality rather than size.
In this quote, Robin Wright reflects on the challenges of maintaining integrity within the Hollywood industry. She emphasizes that for her, the essence of a role is more important than its size or prominence, indicating that she prefers to wait for meaningful opportunities rather than compromising her values for the sake of work. This decision highlights a deeper philosophical stance on authenticity and the importance of aligning one's career with personal beliefs.
In practice
In a discussion about choosing acting roles, this quote can illustrate the importance of integrity.
I'm worried that the audience is being conditioned. That's my real fear. Because if they don't want to see wrinkles on the screen, if they actually fear looking at them, then it's only going to get worse. Those of us who don't want to shoot up and cut and sew, we're just not going be cast.
No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty.
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.
As a person of color, I was trained from very early on to see 'Leave It to Beaver,' 'Gilligan's Island,' or 'Hamlet' and look beyond the specifics of it - whether it be silly white people on an island or a family living in Nowheres or a Danish person - to leap past the specifics and find the human truths that have to do with me.
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.
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