Martin Lawrence Quotes
When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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Everyone freaks out because my character is the only one who has shorts on the Galactica. Well, that is because I went and grabbed a pair of pants and scissors and cut them off and gave her shorts.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
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If you think of the people who are funny in your life, you'll note it's not because they tell jokes, it's because of their character. If you develop characters, then you'll know them, and you'll know how they'll speak. The comedy will come out of the character.
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It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New York. I thoroughly detest New York, though I have to go there very often.... Have you ever noticed that no American writer of any consequence lives in Manhattan? Dreiser tried it (after many years in the Bronx), but finally moved to California.
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The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
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Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women.
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Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.
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When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.
