Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe (Nicole Ari Parker) Quotes

I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'

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• Mark Twain cannot be defined.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Mark
  • Mark Twain
  • Twain

• I drink lots of water, and I've been trying to do daily wheatgrass shots, but they're awful, and I have to plug my nose.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Trying
  • Water
  • Daily

• If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'

  

  Mal Peet
  • Way
  • Try
  • Without

• The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Growth
  • English
  • Genuine

• I want to keep pushing my boundaries. One of the biggest things I learned from 'Unbroken' is that you can go a lot further than you think you can. We often underestimate our actual capabilities.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Think
  • Want
  • Underestimate

• I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Work
  • Never
  • Thought

• Fame is a lot of fun, but it's not interesting. I loved being noticed and praised, even the banquets. But they didn't have anything that I wanted. After about six months, I found it boring.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Fun
  • Interesting
  • Loved

• I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Hungry
  • Eater

• You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Believe
  • Fear
  • Respect

• It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • May
  • Inspire
  • Collaboration

• Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Gender

• Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Ignore
  • Behinds
  • Storytelling

• Anyone with a internet connection and an idea can develop an audience

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Ideas
  • Audience
  • Connection

• For as long as there's life, for as long as we have things happening in the world, for as long as people haven't been able to work it, for as long as people are not trying to work it out, for as long as there's crime, destruction, hate, bigotry, for as long as there is a spirit that does not have love in it, I will always have something to say.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Judged
  • Cross of Christ

• Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future.

  

  An Wang
  • Future
  • Wisdom
  • Present

• I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.

  

  Alan Hansen
  • World
  • Team
  • World Cup

• Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Humanity
  • Christians

• By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it . . . .

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Men
  • Fighting

• They played so good it was frightening. And I, of course, being young, was in awe of everything that was going on and rightly so. I mean, it was too good to believe.

  

  Ray Brown
  • Believe
  • Everything
  • Played

• Writers are not always right however, but then again, I've been on shows where the actors have complete control and change everything and it's terrible.

  

  William Devane
  • Actors
  • Shows
  • Terrible

• I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
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