Jamie Foxx (Eric Marlon Bishop) Quotes

When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.

Jamie Foxx

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• Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.

  

  Karen O
  • Pretty
  • Rock
  • Road

• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Down

• All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Guy
  • Community
  • Star

• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Boy
  • Living

• I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Father
  • Words
  • Wise

• Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and papers in archives or even private homes, looking for the telling phrase or letter that someone else has missed.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Looking
  • Someone
  • Letter

• I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.

  

  Samantha Cameron
  • Read
  • Public
  • Private

• I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Know
  • Me
  • Weird

• I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Why
  • Way
  • Like

• Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Easy

• I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Ends
  • Deny

• Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Nothing
  • Some
  • Symbols

• There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?

  

  Idris Elba
  • Character
  • Man
  • Black

• I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • World
  • Feel
  • Belong

• Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • Years
  • Strange
  • Old

• To be honest, I owned one suit before I filmed 'Mad Men' - the one suit that you have to have as an adult. Outside of that, I never really felt comfortable in a suit.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Men
  • Never
  • Mad

• Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.

  

  Rain
  • Effort
  • Humility
  • Modesty

• It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

  

  Betty Friedan
  • Men
  • Home
  • Society

• I enjoy just showing people other sides of me, especially everyone always sees me in my helmet and ski suit. It's nice to just show everyone me, just me in my everyday clothes or just me in high heels or just me not in my ski gear, basically.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • People
  • High
  • Nice

• I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.

  

  Peta Wilson
  • Men
  • Laughter

• Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. Much of the complexity he must master is arbitrary complexity … because they were designed by different people, rather than by God.

  

  Fred Brooks
  • People
  • God
  • Different

• There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Great
  • Money
  • Successful

• When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • Business