Sterling K. Brown (Sterling Kelby Brown) Quotes
The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
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Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
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I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
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I never have time to have a dinner. I have to eat while I'm memorizing lines. The only way to maintain energy is to eat all day long. I must eat all day long.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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Having a period of - well, austerity, shall we say - certainly humbles you.
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You can't use the fact that I'm bisexual against me if that's something I'm proud of.
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I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.
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All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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You just have to be very humble if America has really worked for you like it has for me. Most of my friends are poor. Most of my siblings are poor. I see how hard it is just to get money unless you've got some incredible luck or work incredibly hard. I want everyone to do well. I wish 'Wayne's World' money on you!
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I was a delivery boy at one point.
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The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.
