Michael Jai White Quotes

In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

Michael Jai White

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• I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.

  

  Aaliyah
  • People
  • Good
  • Remember

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Information

• I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Father
  • Actor
  • More

• Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Dance
  • Pleasures

• Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'

  

  Lajos Egri
  • People
  • Want
  • Remembered

• Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Work
  • Me
  • Passion

• People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • People
  • Government
  • Politics

• You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • True
  • Nature
  • Want

• I used to love to draw. I didn't want to go to art class because I felt that would be too corny when I was young, but architectural drafting was the cool thing to do because there was more precision. It taught me a lot about building and structures and doorways and frames and windowsills.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Cool
  • Young
  • Taught

• It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Interesting
  • Villain

• It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • Job
  • Movie

• I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • First
  • Invention

• It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • You
  • Know
  • Filmmaking

• The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Just
  • Number
  • Parts

• To many Americans, whose only knowledge of the North Star State is that it is intensely cold and populated by Swedes and Holsteins, it will come as a surprise to wake up one morning in 2004 and read in the newspaper, 'Half of U.S. Economy Now in Hands of Minnesota'.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Up
  • Knowledge
  • Morning

• There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • History
  • Happy

• To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • People
  • Music
  • Today

• I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not. It's the same thing with everything else: the movie comes out, and then it's gone. Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time chasing something that ultimately doesn't exist.

  

  Brie Larson
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Stress

• This film [Doctor Strange] kind of takes that everyday boring reality and really bursts it wide. So we talked a lot about that. In many ways there's something very practical about this world, the Kamar-Taj. It's - You know, we all look like samurai warriors, but actually there are iPads everywhere and there's a feeling that it's a practical possibility for this modern world that the Doctor Strange universe is functioning, and that we know it and it's around the corner for all of us.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Reality
  • Feelings
  • Everyday

• I am a very basic person. I still believe marriage happens only once, and you have to sustain it.

  

  Anushka Sharma
  • Believe
  • Marriage

• In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.

  

  Michael Jai White
  • Reality
  • Certain
  • Themselves