Isaiah Washington Quotes
You don't want to be on a show that no one wants to see, and then think your phone is going to be ringing off the hook to do other jobs. I'm not tethered to the fact that my demise may be reached this season or next season, or whatever.
Quotes to Explore
-
Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
-
I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
-
I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
-
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
-
A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
-
Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
-
I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.
-
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
-
I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.
-
Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
-
I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
-
I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.
-
Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
-
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.
-
Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.
-
I enjoy music that is commercial. I think that in order for music to be heard in a lot of different situations, you have to always consider that. Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music, and you always have to keep that in mind. It's not so much financial as making sure it gets the shot and is heard on the radio.
-
I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.
-
When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.
-
People always ask me, 'Why so many historical dramas?' Because those are the best roles I get to play, and I get to play heroes in those roles.
-
I like my body, I like to have fun with what I put on, but I also want to remain classic. So I guess my signature is sexy and eclectic but classic.
-
They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.
-
Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
-
You don't want to be on a show that no one wants to see, and then think your phone is going to be ringing off the hook to do other jobs. I'm not tethered to the fact that my demise may be reached this season or next season, or whatever.
