Keenen Ivory Wayans Quotes
I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.
Quotes to Explore
-
No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
-
I'm, I guess you could say, the Chinese-speaking, banjo-picking girl.
-
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
-
My enthusiasm seems to cause my world to endlessly offer me cooperative, co-creating experiences. I'm willing and I'm eager, and not just about my writing - I feel the same way about staying in shape, enjoying my family, giving a lecture, or whatever it may be.
-
I'm open to all the elements, I'm definitely ready to take anything on. But I don't want to jump too far into the deep end.
-
I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.
-
Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
-
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
-
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
-
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
-
Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
-
Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.
-
Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
-
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
-
Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
-
My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
-
I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'
-
Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.
-
I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
-
Nobody can write a good 30-second commercial.
-
Everybody's going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings from their heart and soul.
-
When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
-
I came into politics partly because I want to be able to reduce taxes so that individuals have more of their money to spend, so that businesses have more of their money to create jobs, but I believe that lower taxes are sustainable when you get the public finances in order, so I will only make promises I can keep on taxation.
-
I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.
