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

• If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Speak
  • Sense
  • Europe

• 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

• As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Myself
  • Goal
  • Try

• 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

• 'What is love?' 'The total absence of fear,' said the Master. 'What is it we fear?' 'Love,' said the Master.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Fear

• 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've been pretty focused my entire life, and now that I have a family, I'm just going to keep that focus, but it's going to be a family focus.

  

  Wiz Khalifa
  • Life
  • Family
  • Pretty

• We had a teacher in school who would organize dramatic shows. And she decided to put on a show about - I don't know whether you remember - 'Ferdinand the Bull', the comic script. However, she decided, you're going to sing Ferdinand, me, as a role.

  

  James Victor Scott
  • School
  • She
  • Remember

• There is not enough faith in black music at a high level.

  

  Estelle
  • Faith
  • Black Music

• I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-free life, you know?

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Love and exclusive possession can never go together.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Together
  • Possession

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

  

  Billy Dee Williams