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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The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.
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The audience fills me back up, definitely.
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What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
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People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.
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The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
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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.
