Dontrelle Willis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
-
Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
-
Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
-
I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
-
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
-
A bad system will beat a good person every time.
-
I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
-
I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
-
When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
-
I'm not a natural storyteller at all. If anything, I'm a natural interviewer, a natural listener, but I'm not a natural storyteller.
-
If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
-
It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
-
If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
-
The U.N. did not create Israel. The Jewish state came into being because the tiny Jewish community in what was mandatory Palestine rebelled against foreign imperialist rule. We did not conquer a foreign land.
-
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
-
I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.
-
I'm not a pop star.
-
I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin.
-
During a race, it's like I become a machine and the machine becomes a man. I talk to my cars, baby them, shout at them, praise them.
-
Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.
-
Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds.
-
It's not about the money for me.
