Soni Razdan Quotes

Culture changes because of musicians and actors and actresses. There's a responsibility there. You may ignore the responsibility. You may choose to be a bad role model. But, you are a role model nonetheless.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

If someone does something in an entertainment/pop ambience, that person becomes someone who has an impact on the conduct and attitude of a huge number of people who peripherally come in contact with them.

Actors, like it or not, their voices carry deeply into the culture: people look towards them for attitudes, for right or wrong, and today, the mainstream media doesn't really balance the unheard.

Yes, I have used my success to bring goodness to the world. Because I'm an actress, and I'm on someone's favorite show or whatever, I think maybe they will listen to me. I feel there's a responsibility to use that platform wisely.

There's a stigma attached to being an actor. People from 'Big Brother' call themselves actors. There's so much crap. It's not about appreciating that we're here to service the public, that we're storytellers. It doesn't sit comfortably with me.

When I first began acting, I assumed an intellectual responsibility attached to my profession, which I had accepted for a long time. My father taught me that an actor had to have a social and political conscience, and that the work that he does has to reflect from that.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

Nowadays, people in the entertainment industry can have a louder voice than politicians, and I think it's important that they use that voice to say something positive or to give a voice to somebody that's had theirs taken away.

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

I think, as a woman and as somebody in the entertainment industry, we have to be careful what we're putting out there and what we're trying to say.

I usually go with roles that I find entertaining. But every once in a while, there comes along a film that has an important social message. As actors, we have a certain responsibility toward our audience.

As designers, we have a great responsibility.

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

People have always tut-tutted about actors stepping out of line politically. And I can sort of see it because what you've got your fame for is not being someone who can influence things, so it's cheating.

Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

We have to be very careful about what we say out there to the masses in the entertainment industry because people are listening to every word, and they take it to heart.

The notion of artistic responsibility begs questions with no satisfactory conclusions, the most inevitable and ineffectual being that we should just keep thinking and talking about it, given that the alternative - a governmental body monitoring the movies we make and see - is unacceptable.

Actors don't have real value.

I think with artists and celebrities, you want to be simultaneously supportive of their conversions without putting too much hope and weight into it.

Beyonce may be a gifted entertainer, but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation.