Harold Perrineau Quotes
I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
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I've actually changed my view of Los Angeles. When I was younger, I hated it, because I thought it was fake and superficial. As I've gotten older, I've found that to be absolutely true, but I don't care.
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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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Physically, it is very demanding as an actor, and I don't want to put a lot of focus on that, but I think it is emotionally and mentally a lot more... It can completely twist you... We abandon ourselves for days and months, and by the end of it, we are twisted people which you make fun of.
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
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I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
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Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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I'm so much fun. Every kid wishes I was their grandpa! I'm the Motor City Madgramps.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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You learn so much about yourself as an artist. I never would have thought that I could sing every night, you know? Travel and perform every single night, and travel to another city the next day and do it all over again? You learn a lot of new things about yourself, and you make a lot of connections with people.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.
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I'm a guy that wants the movie to work. So whatever it takes or whatever you got to do - I'm happy to do.
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Too often the word 'prayer' induces guilt because we don't do enough of it. After all, I've never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat.
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It's just a wild experience to have thousands of people stand up and cheer for you.
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I was never a fanatical movie person.
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I was just mind-blown to find that New Orleans is just so much more fun and interesting than I had ever thought.
