Kenny Leon Quotes

I always approach every play based on the cast. When Denzel and I did 'Fences,' I didn't go to rehearsals and say, 'OK, James Earl Jones did a wonderful job in '87. Let me see if you can come close to James Earl Jones.'

Kenny Leon

Job
Fences

Quotes to Explore

The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.

Laura Moser
- Young
- Won
- Claim
Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.

Kate Forsyth
- Past
- Like
- Bones
Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.

Jack Bruce Cream
- Love
- House
- Always
For me, it was not destiny to make it to where I am now - I thought for a long- time I would become a go-kart mechanic, or a job like this, not an F1 driver.

Fernando Alonso
- Time
- Long
- Job
I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.

Salman Rushdie
- Work
- Great
- Literature
If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

M. H. Abrams
- You
- Learn
- Changing