Dennis Haysbert Quotes
I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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Surely no one can be sure he has visited Cienega; people say to themselves, do they not: 'Was it a vision; or have I, some time or other, seen dusk in a valley like this?'
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
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I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.
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I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.
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Oh, God, will you SHUT UP! GODDAMMIT, WILL YOU SHUT YOUR FUCKIN' MOUTH! YOU'RE HIS WHORE! OH! OHHHH!
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I grew up in Northern California, and theater is all there was. I didn't know how to go about starting a career when I was 10.
