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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When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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My father built a small manufacturing business. I worked alongside him and saw firsthand the challenges that business owners face.
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The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
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I don't subscribe to anything. I sit there and I try to think about what seems honest to me.
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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.
