Freddy Adu Quotes
A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
-
There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
-
I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
-
You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.
-
We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
-
I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
-
So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
-
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
-
Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
-
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
-
I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
-
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.
-
Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
-
People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
-
I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
-
In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
-
I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
-
Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
-
To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.
-
I think there's a lot to be learned from your teammates and older guys around you. And there are many ways to lead. You don't have to change your personality to be a leader.
-
Later, I made a movie with him, 'That Touch of Mink,' and we became good friends but any woman's initial meeting with Cary is right up there with the big moments of her world history.
-
Even though the method of 'Harvest' was a historical novel, its intentions were that of a modern novel. I'm asking you to think about land being seized in Brazil by soya barons. It's also a novel about immigration.
-
A lot of people have been hyped up to be great but just disappeared. I promised myself I wouldn't be one of them.
