Michael B. Jordan Quotes

I'm a professional at what I do. I'm an actor. I've been on enough movie sets to know the difference between a stage light and an apple box. I know the difference. Why? Because I've been around it long enough and I know.

Michael B. Jordan

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• As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Better
  • Actors
  • Ballplayers

• I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Process

• I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Think
  • Boxes
  • Cultural

• Out of all the actors I have worked with, I love working with Larry Hagman the most. We were very close and it was just a wonderful time.

  

  Barbara Eden
  • Time
  • Actors
  • Working

• I think there is a lot of space for people to love who they love, and a lot of space for actors to carve a niche for themselves.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Think
  • Space

• My job as an actor is to serve the writing and help the author get his ideas across.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Help

• There are ways in which you can make sure that even if people come to the theatre because they know an actor or actress, by the end, theyve forgotten that, and they leave going, Wow - what an amazing play.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Theatre

• I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Father
  • Free
  • Boxes

• As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Want

• When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Actors

• As a director you want to have actors, not only surpassing themselves, but also going somewhere, going different places.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Different
  • Actors
  • Directors

• I would love to do a serious period drama. Oh, absolutely. I mean, you'll find most comedians want to do more serious stuff, most musicians want to be comedians, and most serious actors want to be musicians.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Serious
  • Drama
  • Period

• All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.

  

  Muddy Waters
  • Kids
  • Made
  • Boxes

• I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Guy
  • Actors
  • Excited

• I'm glad that I'm being acclaimed as an actor. Today, when my hard work has paid off I can chill out about it.

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • Work
  • Today
  • Actors

• One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasn't there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • World
  • Father
  • Forest

• Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Chance

• Every single time when you act in a film, and there's a different director, which of course as actors we're used to experiencing that's what we do, it's a different experience.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Time
  • Different
  • Experience

• I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Universe
  • Actors
  • Watch

• Every day, passion speaks to us through our feelings. That's why when you allow yourself to become anesthetized by what others think, you literally block yourself from living the life you were called to live. I promise you that if you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart. The people who truly love you want you to love yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

  

  Eugene Ormandy
  • Told
  • Heart Attack

• Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

  

  George Eliot
  • Dress
  • Passions
  • Feeding

• I'm a professional at what I do. I'm an actor. I've been on enough movie sets to know the difference between a stage light and an apple box. I know the difference. Why? Because I've been around it long enough and I know.

  

  Michael B. Jordan
  • Actors
  • Boxes
  • Apples