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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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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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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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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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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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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I listen to music I'm looking to record or catch up on news and TV, whatever is on the TV at the gym!
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It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.
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There's nothing like the discipline of having to work on a cold film set on the Danubian plain in Bulgaria. Boy, does it get cold.
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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.
