Michael B. Jordan Quotes
I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
-
Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
-
Quiet is the new loud.
-
People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.
-
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
-
Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
-
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
-
They that are of the flesh cannot do the works of the Spirit, neither can they that are spiritual do the works of the flesh, even as faith cannot do the works of unbelief, nor unbelief the works of faith.
-
Exporting oil would not drive up prices at the pump. American drivers buy refined products, which the U.S. already exports. Many studies - from a range of institutions and government agencies, including the Congressional Budget Office and the Energy Information Administration - have shown that lifting the export ban could actually lower gas prices.
-
I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.
-
I strongly believe that good books are the best home accessory.
-
I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
-
I felt that if I'm serious about acting, I would like people to see me as an actress. It's less of a stretch if I'm singing, unless I'm playing a character who sings.
-
My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.
-
Now, the entire world community recognizes Georgia. We are members of the United Nations and the Council of Europe. Everything is being prepared so that we will soon enter the European Union.
-
The Amen of nature is always a flower.
-
It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.
-
Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
-
I remember my own life as a small boy, son of Jewish immigrants, in a janitor's flat on Orchard and Stanton streets on the Lower East Side of New York City. My father made pants and doubled as janitor of a tenement - before he made janitoring at $30 a month, plus rooms, a career.
-
For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.
-
If I'm gonna stay in this world of comedy, then it has to be a really special character to me in a really smart piece of material.
-
I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.
