Derek Luke Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?
-
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
-
I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
-
There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
-
In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
-
No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
-
Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.
-
In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
-
I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.
-
I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.
-
The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.
-
Thank you for your news, Princess. It is none of it happy, but only a fool desires cheerful ignorance and I try not to be a fool. That is my heaviest burden.
-
Wonder is not a disease. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.
-
My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
-
I think I wrote 'The Trysting Place' in about three weeks. But it was inexperience that made me have to do that. I didn't feel good about the book all the time I was writing it. It felt a bit like wading through molasses.
-
I always tell people that revelling in big ideas for me is kind of like an antidote to existential angst.
-
When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.
-
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
-
I love Fayetteville. I like hills and vistas and hardworking people and fighting snow in winter and chiggers in the summer.
-
He is better known for what he has promised to the sciences than for what he as actually done for them.
-
I remember and know the Bill of Rights. But my instincts tell me to be helpful, and (that attitude) is surprising to a lot of cops who deal with Internet crimes.
-
I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.
-
I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.
