Lance Reddick Quotes

As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • School
  • Character

• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Time
  • Character
  • Relationship

• I base myself in African-derived music. Blues is one of the modern forms of African music.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Blues

• I don't regret what I did in the Sixties. I was young and took myself terribly seriously. In the Seventies, I spent too much time in inner-party factional disputes.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Party
  • Myself

• My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Music
  • Character
  • Film

• I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Dark

• The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Life
  • Good
  • Heart

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Character
  • Enjoy
  • Guns

• I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Life
  • American
  • Myself

• I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

  

  Barbara Feldon
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Finance

• I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Always

• I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.

  

  Harry Caray
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Air

• I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Life
  • Character
  • Judge

• And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Trying
  • Character
  • High

• I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Character
  • Theatre
  • Transformation

• Most aid agencies do not even consider proposals to treat mental health problems; those that do think of it as a minor player, overshadowed by the pressing need to save lives by treating physical illness.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Health
  • Player
  • Problems

• I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

  

  Anne Enright
  • Small
  • Light
  • Stop

• We play everybody's Christmas records at our house, and sometimes you think, 'I'm not gonna play my own record; I'd be embarrassed.' But I'm gonna play our record this Christmas, because I love the songs!

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • House
  • Christmas

• I can get obsessive with my training, but it makes you who you are.

  

  Bradley Wiggins
  • Training

• I always thought it would be funny to have the Parents Television Council write an episode of 'Family Guy' and give them full creative control. Then see how good the episode is. That's something we've actually discussed in the writers' room. We haven't proposed it yet, but if somebody from the PTC reads this, it might be worth discussing.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Writing
  • Guy
  • Creative

• As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Character
  • Career
  • Myself