Jazz Jennings Quotes
'I Am Jazz' was more for children to understand what it means to be transgender, but with 'Being Jazz,' I wanted to get the universal message across that we are all just people, and we have to live our lives authentically.
Quotes to Explore
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
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I'm not ambitious about my career, but I am ambitious with each job. I can be fairly annoying to work with.
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The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains and filled valleys and made everything nice and big and flat, and they bypassed every town.
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Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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I grew up in Philadelphia in a time where we took it for granted that we were supposed to be young and gifted and black. It was a culture of excellence - and all my friends were more talented than I was.
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'I Am Jazz' was more for children to understand what it means to be transgender, but with 'Being Jazz,' I wanted to get the universal message across that we are all just people, and we have to live our lives authentically.
