Keith David Quotes

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

Keith David

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• There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Way
  • Natural
  • Order

• The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Gentle
  • Haitian

• If I see someone doing a new sport, I usually like to throw myself into it, and I never look at it and think, 'That's something I can't do.'

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Look

• I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Baseball
  • Fever
  • Goose

• I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Fun
  • Thought
  • Innovation

• All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Films
  • Go
  • Got

• I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Poor
  • Concerned
  • Oppression

• Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Kind
  • Gay
  • Economy

• If somebody smiles at me on the street, I'm like, 'Hi, have a nice day!'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Nice
  • Day
  • Street

• I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Very
  • Theater
  • Veterans

• I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Movie
  • Model
  • Become

• You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Value

• Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

  

  Fay Wray
  • Good
  • Man
  • Friend

• From the time you open the newspapers to the time the lights go off at night, it's all lies. We lie the most to the people closest to us. For fear of hurting them, breaking their heart, or worrying them.

  

  Karan Johar
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• If I wasn't acting, I'd be teaching acting. That would be my easiest thing to fall back on is teaching it.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Fall
  • Acting
  • Back

• My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Different
  • Religion

• I played pretty darn competitive-level hockey. Then the good old knee injury. Obviously, it's a blessing in disguise, but growing up Canadian, that's our religion, that's our football.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Up
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Together, we came to understand how we beg men to express feelings, but then when men do express feelings, we call it sexism, male chauvinism, or backlash.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Together

• I get nostalgic about having lived in Ames, Iowa, even though being a vegetarian in Iowa is not fun. But I really love Durham more than any place I've ever been; some small towns can be really provincial and strangling, but Durham is the best city in the world.

  

  John Darnielle
  • World
  • Fun
  • Small

• I do what I can to convey what I experience before nature and most often, in order to succeed in conveying what I feel, I totally forget the most elementary rules of painting, if they exist that is.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Experience
  • Painting
  • Forget

• I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.

  

  Bonnie Wright
  • People

• I didn't even have a uniform, just a cap. I wore my regular clothes. The way my shackjob Betty and I drank there was hardly money for clothes.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Money

• I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

  

  Keith David