Keith David Quotes

Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.

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• I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Writing
  • College
  • Take

• If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

  

  Warren Rudman
  • Care
  • Down
  • Planning

• Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children's lives.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Children
  • Father
  • Parents

• Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • High
  • Moving
  • Dance

• Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Greatest
  • Gifts

• For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • American
  • High
  • Culture

• Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Existence
  • Rules
  • Rule

• You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Believe
  • Fear
  • Respect

• I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Fun
  • Pants
  • Thriller

• I know it's become an ongoing thing about whether videogames are art, and I think there's plenty of examples of things that use the form in a fascinating way. Things that are more surreal or artistic, like 'Katamari Damacy' or 'Vib-Ribbon.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Art
  • Think
  • Know

• There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Business
  • Pride
  • Organization

• I met Hugh Jackman, and I was like, 'I love your movies!' And, of course, he asked, 'Which one?' A reasonable question, but I blanked completely. In that moment, I couldn't remember a single film that Hugh Jackman had done. So I copped out. 'The recent one!' And that was one of his biggest disasters. Well done, me.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Remember
  • Like
  • Film

• I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Path
  • Unique
  • Thankful

• Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Imagination
  • Body
  • Radio

• I just love to work hard.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Work
  • Love
  • Work Hard

• Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Long
  • Hurt
  • Deep

• I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Myself

• Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

  

  Walter Lord
  • She
  • Birthday
  • Lit

• Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good at forgetting. Our ignorance of history is matched only by our unfailing optimism; it's actually part of our optimism.

  

  Jill Lepore
  • Good
  • History
  • Ignorance

• Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.

  

  Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
  • Music
  • Force

• I'm the chairman of the board of the Actor's Fund. It's an incredible organization. It helps anybody that has made their living in the performing arts and entertainment: actors, singers, dancers, film producers, agents, managers, ticket takers, writers, anybody in times of need or crisis.

  

  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Organization

• I was very sure I did not want to be the stereotype of what Indian people are seen as, which is Bollywood and henna. That's all great! It's what we are, and I love it. I love saris; I love music. I love henna; I love dancing, but that's not all we are.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Children
  • She
  • Help

• Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.

  

  Keith David