Ice T Quotes
As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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Nothing is certain in life but death and taxes. And in Donald Trump's case, lies.
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Fortunately, in the place where I went out, they had set up a little previously a fence which prevented me finally from smashing against trees. I went out with a broken leg only. A small price to be paid at the time for an accident of this kind.
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There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.
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Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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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?
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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Growing up, I was not told that there were women's areas of preoccupation or male ones.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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'Hurt Village' is based on a real housing project in Memphis, about three minutes away from the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. King was assassinated, so in my work I'm focusing on a very specific area in Memphis. I see 'Hurt Village' as a natural extension of 'The Mountaintop.'
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When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the only art that was presented to me was Abstract Expressionism. But I was interested in the grim stuff. It seemed more exciting.
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As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
