Morris Chestnut Quotes
I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.
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It didn't help my career to be living in Appalachia.
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There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
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I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.
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I can't take much pride in my childhood acting. It feels like it happened in another lifetime, and even then, it felt like a hobby.
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I went to UCLA as pre-med. When I was there my freshman year, I auditioned for a play and got it, and I was so passionate. I just loved acting so much that I decided to switch majors and pursue acting.
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I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
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I think all girls secretly want to be actresses because acting seems so glamorous. But as a child, I was always the villager who had one line in the school play. I was shy and I had a bit of a lisp.
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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I like to come into my workspace and feel it's a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.
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I got the famous Oprah hug!
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Much of the traditional thinking about cash is well intentioned but unrealistic. Should you have six months of living expenses in the bank for emergencies? Sure. Do you? Probably not.
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If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets.
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I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
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Acting's more of a business for me now.
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I love acting and I have a need to do it, even when the business is down.
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We are not out there as a vacuum cleaner, ... We don't have that capability and we don't want that capability.
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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.
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A favorite pro-abortion tactic is to insist that the definition of when life begins is impossible; that the question is a theological or moral or philosophical one, anything but a scientific one. Fetology makes it undeniably evident that life begins at conception and requires all the protection and safeguards that any of us enjoy....As a scientist I know, not believe, know that human life begins at conception.
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People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
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I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.
