Brandon Lee Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
-
The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
-
If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
-
As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
-
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
-
You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
-
I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
-
I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
-
That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
-
I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
-
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
-
You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
-
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
-
I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
-
Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
-
The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
-
I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
-
It would be pretty awesome to hear Eminem singing 'I'm a Good Girl'. Haha! Love Eminem!
-
We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
-
My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
-
I think a toxic message in a lot of Christianity has been that the self has to be annihilated in order for God to be found. I think that has been a toxic message.
-
I draw inspiration from anything and everybody and that's what country music is to me... real life stories and real life emotions.
-
Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.
-
God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.
