Dennis Haysbert Quotes
There are always different roles and questions to be asked about certain characters.
Quotes to Explore
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.
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As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making other artistes do retakes due to my mistakes.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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Every character I approach, from 'Forrest Gump' all the way up to 'The Spoils Before Dying,' has a different set of requirements and always fascinates me.
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When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
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Every time we're about to criticize someone for what we think they did wrong, let's first remember to thank them for the things they did right. And to mean it; to sincerely affirm them. Then, if there's still a problem that needs to be shared, it will come from a completely different energy -- and actually be heard!
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I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
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Of course art world ethics are important. But museums are no purer than any other institution or business. Academics aren't necessarily more high-minded than gallerists.
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I realize how fortunate I have been; mine has been a wonderful life.
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What's funny about that is when I was writing Twilight just for myself and not thinking of it as a book, I was not thinking about publishing, and yet at the same time I was casting it in my head. Because when I read books, I see them very visually.
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There are always different roles and questions to be asked about certain characters.
