Jeffrey Wright Quotes

I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.

Jeffrey Wright

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• I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Kindness

• I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Always
  • Just
  • Agenda

• Since FDR's New Deal, corporations and wealthy families have been non-stop finding new ways to get tax breaks, deregulation and entitlements from the government.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Tax

• I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Television

• I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Go
  • Physics
  • Colonies

• What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Want
  • Crazy
  • Care

• I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Feel

• 'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • More
  • Because
  • Brothers

• I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Great
  • Children

• I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Me
  • Like
  • Need

• It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Daughter
  • Difficult
  • Ugly

• I am just reflecting the times. I can't ignore them.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Ignore
  • Times
  • Reflecting

• Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Awake

• I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Well
  • Over
  • Decade

• My new iPhone, I'm obsessed. My iPod. I love all the Mac crap. AppleTV, I'm crazy about that. I'd rather buy a new gadget than, like, a purse.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Crazy
  • Like
  • Purse

• It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Political
  • Stop
  • Military

• A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status - all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Desire
  • Car
  • Drama

• If you go into something saying, 'I'm the bad guy,' you do yourself a disservice as an actor. It's always about trying to find the humanity in a character.

  

  Mekhi Phifer
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Bad

• Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

  

  Chuck Zito
  • Money
  • House

• People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference.

  

  David Neeleman
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.

  

  Lindsey Haun
  • Music
  • Mother

• You know when you're hungry and excited and you feel humble about it? I like that. In the past, when things were not clear, I think I wasn't ... I didn't have my feet on the ground as much, maybe, 10 years ago. So I just feel like this is a good place to be now, to feel that you want to tell stories from this place and that you're excited to tell stories from this place because you know what you love. I know what I love right now.

  

  David O. Russell
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Past

• I do have characters who are more well known than I am, which suits me fine.

  

  Jeffrey Wright