Jamie Foxx (Eric Marlon Bishop) Quotes
Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
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How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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Actually, I've always wanted to be a professional skateboarder ever since I was about six.
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Highdrake said that to make love is to unmake power.
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And tiny vessels oozed into your neck And formed the bruises That you said you didn't want to fade But they did and so did I that day
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When I worked with Bill Nighy on 'Wrath of the Titans,' he said to me, 'There's one thing you can promise me, and that's never, ever, ever read your reviews.'
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The fact that there's people out there that care about what I'm eating for breakfast or care about a tweet that I posted in 2012 that they pulled up because they were searching on my Twitter and things like that - it's hard to understand, because it's just me, and I just think, 'What's so interesting about me?'
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I'm a huge reader... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.
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I love cooking. I'm in the restaurant business.
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My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.
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I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.
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I was big time into Barbie.
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Verily, a polluted stream is man. One must actually be a sea to take in a polluted stream without becoming impure. Behold, I teach you the superman: he is the this sea, in him can your great contempt go under.
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There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
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Having a stage name is like having a Superman complex. I go into the telephone booth as Eric Bishop and come out as Jamie Foxx.
