Keith Stanfield Quotes

Have you ever heard of 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' I would like to play Sidney Poitier's role - I love that role.

Keith Stanfield

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• When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • World
  • Men
  • Community

• I can take an opinion, but I don't like when you try and spew hate and contaminate the way other people think. I feel like I'm one of the people that's always made music for the common man. That's why I don't really live my life the way I could. I don't stunt as much as I could stunt, 'cause that's not who my music is for.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Life
  • Child
  • Born

• People say I look like a vampire. I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or not.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • People
  • Know
  • Look

• Stereotypes do exist, but we have to walk through them.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Walk
  • Through
  • Stereotypes

• But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • You
  • Competition
  • Lane

• Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing
  • Ocean

• Our intention creates our reality.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Reality
  • Intention
  • Our

• I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Life
  • Music
  • Playing

• A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Struggle

• I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Own

• And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough oneness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature needs must make men narrow in order to give them force.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Age

• We humanitarians, as our name suggests, believe that man has an ethical duty to man. We believe that the value of any system is measured by the consideration given to all human beings, not just to a favored class: and by that standard, our present system is a miserable failure.

  

  Damon Knight
  • Believe
  • Value
  • Present

• Scientists, animated by the purpose of proving they are purposeless, constitute an interesting subject for study.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Interesting
  • Purpose
  • Study

• I think it was a generous thought, and one that fow'd from an exalted mind, that it was not improbable but God might be delighted with the various methods of worshipping him, which divided the whole world.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • World
  • God
  • Mind

• You want to talk about the fading of an icon? You never said I was an icon in the first place. But you want to talk about it in a derogatory fashion. You say the superstar has fallen. But you've never called me a superstar ever. It's only that you use these words when you want to say something derogatory.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Words
  • Fashion

• With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.

  

  Antonin Artaud
  • Society

• The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.

  

  Bono U2
  • Music
  • God
  • Running

• The straight man has to know to relate to the comic. When I think of the great comedy teams, I think of Martin & Lewis, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello.

  

  Marty Allen
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • I Think

• Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it?

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Life
  • Love
  • Pity

• A shaman’s activities as a sorcerer, or his own conscious act of entry into the supernatural world, were a kind of “killing”.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Activities
  • Shamans
  • Sorcerer

• They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • True
  • Strong
  • Earth

• I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Pain

• Have you ever heard of 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' I would like to play Sidney Poitier's role - I love that role.

  

  Keith Stanfield