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.
-
We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
-
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.
-
I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because it's not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.
-
We never had such a violation of human rights. In fact, we have had no human rights case here in the Philippines, even to this day.
-
Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
-
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
-
Don't worry. Just leave everything in the hands of God.
-
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.
