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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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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Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.
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Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.
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Many people, men in particular, just can't not be active. I guess our minds demand that we seek other challenges.
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I don't like to do what I call 'the grunters' - a character who sits at a table and grunts and young people make fun of. I turn a lot of those down.
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It's challenging to take on something else that is not you and make it very real and have others be able to associate with it. It's wonderful to provoke thought.
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O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
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If I'm going away for longer than a week I take a suitcase and check it in but I'm good at packing light and quick - years of modelling, travelling and living out of a suitcase has trained me well.
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Let's be healthy big people. Everybody can't be a size 0 or 45, but let's be healthy.
