Debbie Allen Quotes

In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time.

Debbie Allen

• Time

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Myself
  • Doing
  • Mystery

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Great
  • Give
  • Floyd

• I'm very physical. I love to work out; I'm very athletic. It's a great therapy, not only for my body, but for my mind.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Work
  • Great
  • Mind

• Job-wise, I did have a moment of panic that I should have been a doctor a few years ago, but I hate when people vomit.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • People
  • Job
  • Hate

• I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Confidence
  • Vision
  • Creativity

• I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Speak
  • Hebrew
  • Persian

• Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Kids
  • Song
  • You

• The problem with the Iranian regime, of course is, one, its unsettling effects on the Sunnis, particularly Saudi Arabia, and, secondly, its potential threat to Israel.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Problem
  • Potential
  • Israel

• I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Done
  • Effort

• I decided to start acting in my mid-twenties. I studied pre-med, and I have a bachelor's degree in Biology, so when I decided to pursue a different career, I got a lot of, 'What on earth are you doing?' But, I gave myself a year and thought, 'You know what, I'm going to just beat the odds.'

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Different
  • Career
  • Earth

• If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • You
  • Moment
  • Living

• Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • People
  • Advice
  • Yourself

• All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

  

  Young Buck
  • Like
  • Gone
  • Maybe

• The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Journey
  • Take
  • Internal

• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • New
  • Fault
  • Globalization

• Temporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Work

• It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.

  

  Boris Karloff
  • Boy
  • Films
  • Horror

• This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a release for me.

  

  David Ignatius
  • Time
  • World
  • Writing

• In scoring we have a lot that was not evident in the shooting. The radio is on all the time.

  

  Debbie Allen
  • Time