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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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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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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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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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 confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.
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The home of Rugby Union is in Twickenham - just outside London in the suburbs, where I live. I'm mad for it. The trouble with being an actor and being in the theater is that you always miss the games.
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My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.
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[ Serialism ] is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who has grown tired of its being used only as a pontoon, and who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination....
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I always say to people that I left hip-hop in '97, meaning that I departed from listening to predominately hip-hop and just started really getting into records from the late '60s, early '70s. And once I made that change, I realized how much great music was made back in the day, and it started to become apparent how much we've lost in music.
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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.
