Kehinde Wiley Quotes
It was an amazing childhood, despite what you might think about black struggle and poor neighbourhoods and the ghetto. My mother was an educated, budding linguist who really inspired us. Some of the leading indicators of success in the world have to do with how many books are in the house when you're a kid.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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I like to make people think a little bit.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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My family are my friends.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
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Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.
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As far as social media and all that, I understand connecting with fans on a different level, but I don't feel the need to open myself up to the opinion of everybody in the world with a phone or computer. I just don't get that, being connected to everybody on such a superficial level like that. It's not really for me.
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It could have been worse. I could have been born black.
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It was an amazing childhood, despite what you might think about black struggle and poor neighbourhoods and the ghetto. My mother was an educated, budding linguist who really inspired us. Some of the leading indicators of success in the world have to do with how many books are in the house when you're a kid.
