James Dean Quotes
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you're bullied in high school, even if it's the smallest amount, or you're actually tortured, I feel like everybody carries that with them. They always think of that one person who treated them badly in high school.
-
Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
-
The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
-
If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
-
I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
-
A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
-
I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
-
I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
-
I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
-
When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
-
I'm not the girl next door.
-
Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
-
'Mahershala' is my nickname.
-
Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
-
I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
-
Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
-
I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
-
If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
-
My motive, and I will make it clear and look you in the eyes, is to attack major league baseball. That's my motive.
-
People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.
-
They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way of talking. You don't sing to feel better. You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
-
In an age of molecular genomics, it is ever more apparent that the fingerprints of evolution are pressed deeply into human DNA, just as they are into the genomes of every other organism. Biologists understand this, and so do students who study the science of life.
-
What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.
-
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
