Billy Dee Williams Quotes
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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With publicity comes humiliation.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Hollywood is a community that's so inbred, it's a wonder the children have any teeth.
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There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.
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I don't know, I like the word sassy.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
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There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.
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The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.
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'Evita' was four pieces of slick paper and a record album. It's the most scary, to sit down and dictate a musical scene by scene. It was a musical unlike anything I'd ever seen before myself.
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Once I had left 'Twin Peaks' and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, 'No, no, we can't do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.' I'm like, 'No. I've already done it, and it worked, so I don't understand what you're saying.'
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Before you have kids, you're like, 'I hope I don't die on this plane,' or, 'I hope I don't die crossing the street.' It's all me, me, me. 'What do I want to eat? What do I want to do?' But when you have a baby, and you would just happily stand in front of a bus to save her, it's a ferocious commitment to protecting your charge.
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To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.
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A lot of people think, 'I'll give acting or poetry or filmmaking a try. And if it doesn't work out I'll go get a law degree, do something else that's more practical.' For me I went the reverse way. I lived the back-up plan.
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My mother's side of the family, they're from Montserrat in the Leeward Islands.
