Big Sean (Sean Michael Leonard Anderson) Quotes
I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the 'hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.
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I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous 'I'm wearing a huge hat' kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.
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Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts.
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I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.
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I'm always surprised when actors say they don't like sex scenes. It's like a freebie. It's fun to make out with someone. So yes, thumbs up on that.
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I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.
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It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
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Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.
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Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'
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In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.
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'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as a TV actor. It was a great learning experience to work on really fast-paced television shows that are very high quality. It was a place where I learned that I had to keep up and I could keep up.
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.
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When you're a standup comic, you get up and you try stuff, and you're always kind of seeing how far you can push things.
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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
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I like to change and switch it up. I don't want to sound like anybody else or sound the same. I always have to reinvent myself.
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The one thing I try and do, when people say, 'What kind of movies do you guys look for,' the one thing I look for is 'different.' And I think that's very antithetical to Hollywood.
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A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.
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People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It's a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world.
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Cato said, 'I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.'
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I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I would go to school at Detroit Waldorf, and that was not the 'hood. Growing up in Detroit was good. I had a good perspective, a well-rounded one, and not being one-sided.
