Marlon Wayans Quotes

I used to watch all my friends play with G.I. Joes. I couldn't afford them.

Marlon Wayans

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• Life in California is beautiful.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • California

• If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • World
  • Team
  • Best

• I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • World
  • Dream
  • Movies

• To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Modern
  • Expect
  • Intellect

• Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Service

• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Man

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Control
  • King

• We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Up
  • Green

• I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Country
  • Real
  • Success

• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Love
  • Child

• You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • People
  • You
  • Yourself

• I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.

  

  Naomi Scott
  • Home
  • Community
  • Always

• What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Important
  • Book
  • English

• From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Day
  • Laughter
  • Applause

• 'The Movie' is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Money
  • Friends
  • Movie

• One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Future
  • Predict
  • Few

• We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Find
  • Where

• We spend so much of our lives not feeling but doing, doing, doing, and movies remind us that we are human. That life is all the things we see, and yet there is beauty there. There's a celebration of life and all of its intricacies. Movies are magnificent.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Beauty

• Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created this list. You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Thought

• I think, for a love story, the most important element is the music, since you don't have action sequences or item numbers. It really draws in the audience and adds to at least 70 percent of the opening of the movie.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Music
  • Important
  • Movie

• Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • Great
  • Party

• In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.

  

  Bee Wilson
  • Single

• I used to watch all my friends play with G.I. Joes. I couldn't afford them.

  

  Marlon Wayans
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