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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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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Throughout my entire life, I've always been a captain. I was the captain of my high school team. I was the captain at Oklahoma State University. I was the captain of the 2008 Olympic team.
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
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For experience teacheth me that straight trees have crooked roots.
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There's no trick of teaching acting. Either someone wants to do it and is gifted, or not.
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I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But when my father got arrested, I really didn't have a choice. I was the oldest son, and it was something that had to be done.
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To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.
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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.
