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

• 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

• I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• My father was the superintendent of the churches in the state of Montana. He was content in his beliefs. He befit the term 'true Christian.' He would turn the other cheek. He was truly a man of peace.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • True
  • Father
  • Peace

• Band chemistry is a tricky thing. If one guy isn't feeling right with the other guys, everything gets thrown off. When you get the personalities and the chemistry right, that's a grand slam.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Guy
  • Feeling
  • Band

• Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of facially all this time was Heinrich Himmler, including the glasses. If he now pursues the President of the United States, who, however flawed his apology was, came out and invoked God, family, his daughter, a political conspiracy and everything but the kitchen sink, would not there be some sort of comparison to a persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor for Mr. Starr?

  

  Keith Olbermann
  • Time
  • God
  • Family

• It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Love
  • Read
  • Emergency

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

  

  Keith David