Debbie Allen Quotes
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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I think I am more determined than ever in my future plans, and I have quite made up my mind that nothing must be suffered to interfere with them. I intend to make such arrangements in town as will secure me a couple of hours daily (with very few exceptions) for my studies.
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Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
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When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
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Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'
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If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it, because you'll never look good.
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Forgiveness in any aspect of something that is complex is the greatest tool.
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The most important thing I feel in the acting profession is to create a community that reflects you back to you.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means 'I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve'. It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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The main relationship in the whole series was the one between the camera and Fleabag. I had to convince myself that whoever was watching on the other side of the camera was instantly complicit with Fleabag and instantly a friend of hers.
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When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.
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Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
