Meshach Taylor Quotes
That's one of the problems with Hollywood. It'll say 'policeman,' and an unless it says 'black policeman,' a lot of times you won't even get the opportunity to read for it, which is kind of crazy, but that's the way it is.
Quotes to Explore
-
I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
-
In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
-
The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
-
Priority is placed on the chastity of women. You can be corrupt, or a murderer and still hold your head up high on the street without problems, whereas if there are any suspicions of your chastity and moral behaviour as a woman, you get lynched.
-
As a senior at Princeton, I felt like the whole world was open to me. In our country, that's not a given. We aspire to be a place of equal opportunity, and yet where you're born determines your prospects.
-
If you are playing on a turning wicket, toss plays an important role. The team that wins the toss gets an opportunity to play on the fresh wicket. You should always prepare the wicket as per team's strength. But a rank turner might backfire.
-
I think 'Lost' was really a pioneer in the use of the kind of connection between a television show and the Internet, and the Internet really gave fans an opportunity to create a community around the show. That was something that wasn't really planned; it just sort of grew up in the wake of the show.
-
Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.
-
I'd love the opportunity to do something where I could really give my opinion, my feisty side - it'd be fun!
-
Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.
-
People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and the answer is that there's opportunity for innovation online - not only innovation in storytelling, but also innovation in how you interact with your audience and that is very fulfilling to me personally.
-
I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.
-
In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.
-
I think any of us who have been involved in the mission of Iraq have developed a great deal of affection for the Iraqi people and are emotionally invested in what we think is a vital mission... So I think any of my contemporaries would welcome the opportunity to go back and make a contribution to this extraordinarily important mission.
-
A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.
-
I guess I really always wanted to act. When I was seven, I actually had the opportunity to come out to California. I've always really loved playing a part, playing a character and being someone else.
-
Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our time, our love, our resources.
-
We're all grown men, and we all have our ways of handling our problems. I'm not secretive, but I don't really talk about things.
-
It's awesome that you have a female CFO and a female GC, but if you look at the investing partners, and it's 15 dudes, I do think those people are going to get left behind if they don't get with where the world is going.
-
I don't have specific music for when I'm writing. I'm usually listening to the same playlist or 'artist' before I arrive at the computer as when I'm walking somewhere after leaving the computer.
-
There are millions of sci-fi enthusiasts in the world, not just gamers.
-
A romantic or classical view of the French approach would have been to say, 'It's a French company; let no one attack it. Let's block any merger. But the reality is Alcatel-Lucent is not a French company; it's a global company. Its main markets are China and the U.S. Its ownership is foreign; most of its managers aren't French.
-
He's been seasoned, ... Hopefully we've got a young guy who's on the come.
-
That's one of the problems with Hollywood. It'll say 'policeman,' and an unless it says 'black policeman,' a lot of times you won't even get the opportunity to read for it, which is kind of crazy, but that's the way it is.
