Jamie Foxx (Eric Marlon Bishop) Quotes
Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.
Quotes to Explore
-
Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.
-
Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
-
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
-
I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
-
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
-
Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
-
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
-
Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
-
I really don't see a reason why you wouldn't want to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. I mean, not only was He the greatest human being to ever walk the earth, He's everything that I want to strive for. He's everything that anyone should ever want to strive for.
-
I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
-
I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
-
I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
-
This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
-
I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
-
Women just love to shop.
-
I know nothing about technology.
-
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
-
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
-
I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
-
There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
-
I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.
-
I'm hoping that somehow with songs like 'American Gold' there will be some kind of justice, and people just stop being so close-minded to where they're like, 'Oh, it's not race.' It's easy to say that when you're not black and you haven't experienced it.
-
Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.
