Russell Peters Quotes

I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.

Russell Peters

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• The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Remember
  • Artist
  • Young

• We must never bend too much.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Never
  • Too Much
  • Bend

• It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • World
  • Live
  • Political

• I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • History
  • Man
  • Blood

• Hamas has effectively kidnapped Gaza. Instead of turning it into the Singapore of the Middle East that was promised, they have turned it into a fortress of terror.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Middle East
  • Singapore

• It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.

  

  Jack Black
  • Play
  • Tough
  • Transition

• I love recording music.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Music
  • I Love
  • Recording

• If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • You
  • Alone
  • Write

• There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • You
  • Run
  • Safe

• We all have our own purpose in life and I feel very strongly that I have a bigger purpose than giving to just my immediate family and friends.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• Out of your surplus, you can help your allies, and Israel is a great ally. And this is no particular animus of Israel, but what I will say, and I will say over and over again, we cannot give away money we don't have.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Great
  • Money
  • Help

• Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Work
  • Society
  • Black

• Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Strong
  • City
  • New York

• I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Music
  • Like
  • Passions

• We must remember that as the centuries go by, time will pass.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Will

• The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Great
  • May

• I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Way

• Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Free

• I get to enter into the world the director has created: to live these different lives on top of my own life.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Love
  • Acting
  • More

• We always talk about how you have to build a brand from the inside out, not the outside in. Brands are not wrappers. Brands are based on the values of the founders, and then they spread to the people who work for the company, and then that psychological contract is spread to the customer.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • People
  • Work
  • Brand

• Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.

  

  Carter G. Woodson

• Be kind to one another, because most of us are fighting a hard battle.

  

  John Watson
  • Fighting
  • Motivational
  • Battle

• I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.

  

  Russell Peters
  • Acting
  • Comedian
  • Progression