Mike Epps Quotes

Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.

Mike Epps

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• I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Powerful
  • Better
  • Acting

• I don't think you have to be in these serious, heavy, independent little movies to be an actor. Some of the most interesting acting I've seen is on cable television.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Serious

• The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Reason
  • Need
  • Made

• I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • Good
  • Acting
  • Research

• With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Fake

• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Nothing
  • Divine

• I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Director

• I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • School
  • Acting
  • Doing

• I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • School
  • Like
  • Balance

• I've never been in the music industry, only acting.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Music
  • Never
  • Acting

• When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Movie
  • Goal
  • Acting

• This nation loves singing and loves acting.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Singing
  • Acting
  • Nation

• While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Time
  • Art
  • Day

• I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Up
  • Time
  • Happy

• I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Age
  • Struggle
  • Stories

• I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Me
  • Relationship
  • Acting

• I have learned that acting is not about beauty.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Beauty
  • Acting
  • Learned

• It feels like we all win when Joe wins. People know the struggle, everything I had to overcome. People feel like that's them winning. If Joe could do it, they could do it.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Winning
  • Struggle

• When I started acting professionally, it really felt like an extension of just playing around - it was all very organic.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Like
  • Acting
  • Just

• The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle.

  

  Rumi
  • Man
  • Struggle
  • Son

• Each thread of life that you leave, will spin around your deeds and dictate your needs.

  

  Don McLean
  • Life
  • Needs
  • Deeds

• 90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

  

  Paul J. Meyer
  • Failing
  • Persistence
  • Quitting

• There’s a lot of dirty theology out there, the religious counterpart to dirty politics and dirty business, I suppose. You might call it spiritual pornography—a kind of for-profit exploitative nakedness. It’s found in many of the same places as physical pornography (the Internet and cable TV for starters), and it promises similar things: instant intimacy, fantasy and make-believe, private voyeurism and vicarious experience, communion without commitment. That’s certainly not what we’re after in these pages. No, we’re after a lost treasure as old as the story of the Garden of Eden: the...

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Business
  • Theology
  • Religious counterpart

• Every now and then you get a nice Jewish kid who likes black people and they would come in, and it would be a stream of them, and have black friends and really feel the black struggle on the acting tip and it's a reason why all of us are not dying in the movie.

  

  Mike Epps
  • Reason
  • Struggle
  • Acting