Billy Dee Williams Quotes

Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.

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• My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Guy

• There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • People
  • You
  • Environment

• I have one car that works; it's fast and safe: an Audi 5. And I have two old cars that never work: an old Peugeot convertible, and an Alfa Romeo Giulia.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Work
  • Car
  • Fast

• My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Life
  • Different
  • Mother

• One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn't been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Character
  • Think
  • Easy

• So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Said
  • Italian
  • Steal

• The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Up
  • Language

• I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Music
  • Taken
  • Thought

• It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Simple
  • Something
  • Nobody

• It’s a pleasure that you don’t outgrow the anthology.

  

  M. H. Abrams

• So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Long

• I don't have any weird gimmicks. I do put on lipstick for the show. That's what separates it. 'Cause I don't wear makeup at all... That's probably the closest thing I have to a routine.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Weird
  • Makeup
  • Lipstick

• I wouldn't say there isn't a direct path to a successful career. There are people who knew exactly what they wanted to do from a very young age, weren't going to be diverted, and then they just went out and achieved it.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Age
  • Career

• 'Fabulosity' is to get up when you've been kicked down, and it's not to go after who kicked you down.

  

  Kimora Lee Simmons
  • Up

• It's nice to see how much the mainstream fashion community has been so accepting of it. It's very exciting to see that folks finally want to make plus-size mainstream.

  

  Ashley Nell Tipton
  • Community
  • Nice
  • Fashion

• I'm a kid from New Hampshire who's pretty normal.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Pretty

• I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both brunt and font. It's certainly the most miserable state to be in but it's also tremendously gratifying, really - rage feels justified.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg

• Even some of the most jaded D.C. types are still impressed when the leader of the free world enters the room.

  

  Joel C. Rosenberg
  • World
  • Free

• I never would've tried YouTube if I hadn't had so many doors slammed in my face.

  

  Lindsey Stirling

• Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Life
  • Concern
  • Intense

• There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Knowledge
  • Desire
  • Purpose

• Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Brother
  • Magic
  • Caring

• If I'm disrespectful to my opponent, how can I respect myself?

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Opponents
  • Disrespectful

• Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.

  

  Billy Dee Williams