Billy Dee Williams Quotes
I tend to approach characters not based on ethnicity but on some unique individual qualities, and I've set my whole life that way. I don't want any sort of limitations imposed on my work. If you truly want to be a creative person, you can't limit yourself.
Quotes to Explore
-
Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
-
At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
-
Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
-
A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
-
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
-
I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
-
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
-
If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
-
Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
-
I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
-
When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
-
I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
-
'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
-
As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
-
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
-
I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.
-
When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
-
You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
-
It goes without saying that the slogan does not mean death to the American nation; this slogan means death to the US’s policies, death to arrogance.
-
While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise.
-
The most horrifying thing I ever did was work as a steward on an airplane. I wanted to get hired by United. I thought, 'With my languages, this will be amazing; I will work in First Class.' But I could only get a job with an airline going from Newark, New Jersey to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
-
To be a princess is to play at life. To be a queen is to be a serious player...The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.
-
Have an anchor so that life doesn't toss you around.
-
I tend to approach characters not based on ethnicity but on some unique individual qualities, and I've set my whole life that way. I don't want any sort of limitations imposed on my work. If you truly want to be a creative person, you can't limit yourself.
