Tavi Gevinson Quotes

I'll stop when I think I'm not doing good stuff. I'll never exploit something just because people like it.

My faith sometimes burdens me with the responsibility to think very deeply and long and hard about the choices I make creatively. There are projects I turn down because the material is too much a violation of what I believe. But that's true of anybody.

It didn't occur to me to go into something that didn't have an ethical return for me.

You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left.

As for Hollywood, there was an offer. But I declined to do it because of certain moral and ethical values.

My conscience won't allow me to do films I thought were bad but were going to make money.

I don't really say, 'Is this script Catholic or not?'. But if I find it to be immoral, or it doesn't sit right with me, which happens a lot these days because there's a lot of garbage being written... I'm like, 'I'm not doing this.'

I turned down as many roles that I thought were beyond my abilities as I did ones I thought weren't good enough.

You're either a person with a conscience, or you're not. I think I've got quite a fine conscience.

Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

I cannot do a film I don't believe in, however safe it might be.

My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.

My faith has cost me a lot of money. Because I do creative roles, and I guess someone could think of me as, I could play bawdy, I could play rough around the edges. And so they think, 'Oh, she'll do this. It'll be so funny.' And I'm like, 'I'm not doing that.'

I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.

I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.

I passed up a lot of work 'cause a lot of movies that may be out there right now I passed em up because there may have been a lot of cussin' in 'em.

There's some things that no amount of money can get me to do.

I will not accept a role just because a big hero stars in it. I am not here to merely dance, run around trees, and be a glam doll.

I have no qualms working on a quintessential Bollywood film, but I can't work on mindless no-brainers. I have too much self-respect for that.

I am not someone who will pick just any role in order to work. I want to attempt different characters.

I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.

I've still got my senses about me, and I know what's right and wrong, which is the main thing.