John David Washington Quotes

I would tell people my dad was all the characters he's played in movies, because once you say he's a lawyer or something, they move on.

John David Washington

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• It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Great
  • Wife

• I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Things
  • I Can
  • Worth

• I think it's always best to be who you are.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
  • You
  • Best

• Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • American
  • Everyday

• I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.

  

  Imelda May
  • Style
  • Colour
  • Grey

• 'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • World
  • Work
  • Amazing

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • You
  • Monster
  • Buildings

• There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Great
  • New
  • New York

• I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.

  

  Ice Cube
  • World
  • Way
  • Respect

• There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • You
  • Energy
  • Urban

• No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • America
  • Quite

• Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Act

• I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I'm an emotional guy.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Guy
  • Emotional

• I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Lost
  • Myself
  • Genius

• Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Hate
  • Thought
  • Idiot

• There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Age

• I found him perhaps the least terrifying man I've ever met in the theater—because at first glance I could see through him and he could see through me, and he knew that I knew that he knew. Look, love, I've been bullied all my life by bigger experts than Larry Olivier, I can assure you, and he's just got to get in line.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Men
  • Firsts
  • Found

• That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Kind
  • Take

• I can't think of a better bonding experience than to be able to sit on stage and to watch your fellow performers perform on stage every night.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Experience
  • Night

• Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Sleep

• I would tell people my dad was all the characters he's played in movies, because once you say he's a lawyer or something, they move on.

  

  John David Washington
  • People
  • Dad
  • Lawyer