Marsha Thomason Quotes

Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.

On a radio drama, I'd like to feel that I had just as much chance of playing Mr. Darcy as anyone else because I can sound like him, yet many radio producers find it very difficult to extend their imaginations to employing anyone who's non-white.

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

I'm not expecting much work in Hollywood, to be honest. People stick to film because they tend to get offered the same roles over and over again, and it's safe. But I'm not interested in doing that.

If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?'

We are all naturally xenophobic.

I lived in L.A. for seven years, and if you're a German actor, they always throw the Nazi parts at you.

We were to work in a film titled 'Zabardast'. Unfortunately, this film didn't take off. After this, I never got another chance to work with him, I regret not having worked with Dilip Kumar.

I navigate different cultures daily, and I understand how people can make false assumptions because of their lack of interaction with the cultures I find myself in. But if they don't frequent these spaces much, how can they rush to judgment?

I was told 'You should just do commercials and Bollywood' and Bollywood would be said to me like it's a bad thing.

I blew a chance at a million dollars.

If I had a chance with him, I missed it. No, I didn't miss it. I threw it away.

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

We didn't get that chance because I was afraid. Afraid I had no chance with you.

If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

Every actor needs someone to take a chance on them.

Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.

I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids.

Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?

Never was a person more mortified than I was at this time, to see so fair an opportunity to push a victory; Detroit lost for want of a few men.

She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help.