The truth is, the older you get, the less variety of parts you are offered. If you`re a star and you`ve spent most of your career being able to take your pick of the litter, you notice when the offers start to diminish. You`re too old to play leads, so you`re offered the supporting role - but many stars don`t want to make that transition. They see it as a sign of symbolic impotence. And that the audience will no longer regard them as a star. I love acting, and I`m not going to determine what I do based on what I fear other people might think. I do what I want to do.
- Dustin HoffmanImpotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking.
- Loni AndersonThere is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you.
- Norman MailerThe Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
- Ayn RandIt is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mohandas K. GandhiImpotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.
- Rick MoodyIt is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Adam LoewenWe call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
- Joseph Roux