Jim Brown Quotes
What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?
Quotes to Explore
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as quick as possible and move away. I had to break this inhibition before becoming an actor.
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I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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Taylor Swift's audience can listen to me, but so can the street kids. I want to touch it all.
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You have to do what you believe in.
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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
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I also learned that a person was not necessarily bad just because you did not agree with him, and that if you believed in something, you had better be prepared to defend it.
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A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
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What I want to do is play roles as a black man, instead of playing black man's roles. You know?
