Jesse Williams Quotes
As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.
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It's lovely to be considered pretty and lovely to do photo shoots, and I just love fashion. But I'm proud that I did the characters I wanted to do.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest me. I mean, 140 characters? I am really not interested in Ashton Kutcher's daily walks. Not for me.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.
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I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.
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I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
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I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23.
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Pure air and water, cleanliness, a proper diet, purity of life, and a firm trust in God are remedies for the want of which thousands are dying; yet these remedies are going out of date because their skillful use requires work that the people do not appreciate.
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As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.
