Jackie Joyner-Kersee Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
-
When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
-
If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
-
Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
-
When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
-
People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
-
For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
-
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
-
You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
-
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
-
If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
-
I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
-
I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
-
Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
-
Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.
-
I rode my bike to school every day from age five to age fourteen. It was a small town - you could go anywhere.
-
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
-
When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.
-
You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
-
Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.
-
With Vietman, we found ourselves involved there before we really understood what was going on.
-
When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
-
Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
