Mo'Nique (Monique Angela Hicks) Quotes
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.
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Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
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People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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When I'm playing a team sport, it's not about one individual, it's about everyone, from me to the other 23 people who were there, to all the support staff who've worked very hard behind the scenes.
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
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Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
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The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want to have my music with me.'
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...reports about very innocent people being thrown into detention where they could be held for years without any representation or charges is distressing.
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I'm not sure that, for a lot of people, the real world is an easy place to live in. And yet we still soldier on.
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People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.
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Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.
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Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
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Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.
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In revolutionary times the rich are always the people who are most afraid.
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Self-censorship happens not only in China, or Iran or ex-Soviet places. It can happen anywhere. If an artist penetrates a certain taboo or a certain power through their work, he or she will face this problem. I'm always saying that commercial censorship is our foremost censorship globally today. Why do we still pretend we are free?
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A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
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Let's be healthy big people. Everybody can't be a size 0 or 45, but let's be healthy.
