Jeffrey Wright Quotes

I, Jeffrey Wright, the actor, actually signed on to the 'Westworld' Delos website. My profile came back as a Libertine, which is probably reasonably accurate.

Jeffrey Wright

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• When I was young I didn't care about education, just money and box office.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Money
  • Education
  • Care

• I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Home
  • Age
  • Travel

• I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Think
  • Cameras
  • Certainly

• I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

  

  Washed Out
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• People tend to think they know you when you come into their televisions every week. They think you are different than who you are. Don't believe everything you hear.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• I don't like piano solos.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • Piano
  • Solos

• I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Way
  • Materials
  • Detect

• My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?'

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Giving
  • Dad
  • Thought

• We found out tonight how important and how crucial momentum swings can be. I thought we were playing very well. We were doing a lot of positive things but then we lost the puck two times in our zone and things swung their way. You can't afford to give teams momentum.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Important
  • Lost
  • Positive

• I wasn't a glamour-puss, and there were more interesting roles for an actress like me in the theater and in live television.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Live
  • Interesting
  • Me

• I think the more web video there is, the more press you'll get, as well as all the people who want to tell stories that haven't been told before but can't do that on TV because different stories are a risk.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Different
  • Want

• I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Never
  • Terrorism
  • Call

• I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Technology
  • Design
  • Professional

• The WWE is based on, I think, reaction. You know, if you can't get a reaction, that means you can't put butts in the seats.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Think
  • You
  • Know

• I'm blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can't say I'm adept. Still, I'm definitely not afraid to take chances when it comes to beauty.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Work
  • Beauty
  • Red

• The blue woman, linked and lacquered, at her window Did not desire that feathery argentines Should be cold silver, neither that frothy clouds Should foam, be foamy waves, should move like them

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Desire
  • Cold
  • Blue

• Serious reflexion about one's own character will often induce a curious sense of emptiness; and if one knows another person well, one may sometimes intuit a similar void in him. (This is one of the strange privileges of friendship.)

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • May
  • Character
  • Serious

• I smiled at him but knew it did not reach my eyes. I smiled because he smiled at me, more reflex than emotion. Inside I was nothing. It was a little like being in shock. Shock is nature's insulation, the thing that shuts you down so you can heal, or sometimes so you can die without hurting, or being afraid...

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Nature
  • Die
  • Eyes

• We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Revolution
  • Countries
  • Marxists

• A smile is the best way to get away with trouble even if it’s a fake one.

  

  Masashi Kishimoto
  • Way
  • Smile
  • Trouble

• I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Writing
  • Blood
  • Aids

• I just did this movie with Kristin Wiig called 'The Skeleton Twins.' That's a straight drama. We play estranged twins, and I end up moving in with her and her husband, played by Luke Wilson. But it's a drama, and the Duplass Brothers produced it and this great guy, Craig Johnson, directed it. And that was great, you know?

  

  Bill Hader
  • Up
  • Great
  • Movie

• It takes compromise to raise a child, especially with a schedule like mine.

  

  Future

• I, Jeffrey Wright, the actor, actually signed on to the 'Westworld' Delos website. My profile came back as a Libertine, which is probably reasonably accurate.

  

  Jeffrey Wright