Dwight Henry Quotes
I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT.
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The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in the armor.
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I feel like, sometimes, plus-size women get scared to show skin... but summer is the time that we can enjoy doing that.
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I've interviewed the president in the White House. I'd interviewed major newsmakers and Hollywood actors.
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I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'
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I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.
