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 view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.
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When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect us to bring the best of IBM worldwide to it, not just the experience of IBM Spain.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.
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Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.
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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.
