Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes

If people are coming to 'Hamilton' to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.

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• Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

  

  Dan Rather
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Alligator

• Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attention
  • Yourself
  • Turn

• Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Past
  • Yourself
  • Forgiveness

• No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Actor

• My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Movie

• The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • World
  • Live
  • Country

• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Woman

• I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Model

• I would say Hope Solo is competitive.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Hope
  • Say
  • Competitive

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • World
  • Water

• I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Age
  • Army

• Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

  

  Ice T
  • Value
  • Looking
  • Shock

• Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Music
  • Always
  • Hearts

• I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Military

• I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Me
  • Three
  • Bicycle

• I'm always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, 'If there's a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.'

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Man
  • Always
  • Said

• I still find new things every night, which is the beauty and fun of live theater. It's a living, breathing art form.

  

  Brandon Uranowitz
  • Live
  • Art
  • Fun

• Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Work

• I've met such amazing people in their 40s, in their 60s, 70s, and they completely bely their age on paper.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • People
  • Age
  • Amazing

• When I got to GM they were using a matrix method of management which means everybody has more than one boss. I first heard about that system many years ago. It's supposed to help with collaboration, but my assessment is that it's pretty hard to get geared for action that way.

  

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.
  • Help
  • Pretty
  • Action

• Dominic Sherwood would always tell me a joke right before it was my take or my close up. He'd say a funny joke, and I couldn't stop laughing, even after they said, 'Action.'

  

  Emeraude Toubia
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Action

• If people are coming to 'Hamilton' to leave their politics behind, you came to the wrong show.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • People