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.
Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.
live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning. At other times the line is so wired that it lights up the soles of my feet, gradually my whole body, until I am my own beacon, and I see then the beauty of newly created worlds, a form that is not random. A new beginning.
A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.
I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.
Why should she give her bounty to the dead? What is divinity if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
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