Sarah Baker Quotes

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

Because I'm not perfect looking, I get to play better roles.

I've always turned down stuff where you had to be fat. I may be fat, but that's not why you play a role. If the guy has to be that way, I say get somebody else because I'm not doing any fat acting.

I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.

I just don't want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I'm really proud of.

It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.

I think early in my career, I didn't choose films that were crappy films, necessarily, but I didn't go out and campaign for smaller, better roles.

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

I've never not been proud of the work I was doing; I have nothing I have any shame about.

The idea is to choose good roles and good movies. I don't want to act simply to remain in the industry, nor am I here to do glamour roles.

You have so many offers coming to you so as an actor it is all about finding which project to invest your energy in.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about.

If I look in the mirror when I get up or before going to bed at night, I see a man of average ugliness with stubble, an unruly mane of hair, a squint nose, slightly protruding ears, and bags under my eyes. But I also see a man who's completely happy with the figure staring back at him.

I don't see myself as a hunk of meat.

It's important to accept your body for what God gave you.

I don't want to do material that I don't like. I've always stuck to that policy. If that means being out of work for awhile, that's fine with me.

I don't agree with body shaming.

I'm not in this to make money. I would not have sold my soul to be on 'American Idol.'

If you don't like the look of my face, don't look at me! I'm the one who has to live with it.

I never think about my face. I actually just care about what I'm doing - my voice and my character. I don't care about, 'Am I fat? Am I ugly?'

I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.

I know it's a big gamble, but I want to do good films.

I want people to think about what I have achieved and not what I look like.

I don't think about money when it comes to films.

I don't work this hard on my body to be like, 'Nah, don't look at it.'