Pearl Cleage Quotes
Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.
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Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.
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Since my father was a superstar, without me knowing it, I became a child star, as my father's entire fan base liked me, and I can't thank my father enough for this, as it was so effortless.
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I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.
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'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
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I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the movie 'Annie.' Also, I loved picking out school supplies! Trapper Keepers were my favorite.
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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It was priceless. Being the UFC champion and having my kids in the Octagon, my wife, them holding the belt. That was like a movie.
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I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.
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I was very insecure approaching the idea of directing a feature film. I told myself I would not move until I felt I was moving in power rather than moving in desperation to make a movie.
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The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.
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I've never done a superhero movie. It's very nice to you as an actor in several worlds to go and to experiment.
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'Moonlight' changed me. To see people so moved by this movie inspires me to find something else to offer. And maybe the next one touches only five people or maybe just one person. To me, you know, that would still be worth it.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
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I've just always liked hotels. I like the bed and the sheets and everything that comes along with it.
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I'm a really big animal lover.
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I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in.
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For the record, in my long career, I've never knowingly exposed classified information in an inappropriate manner.
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Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.
