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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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'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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Acting's more of a business for me now.
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Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.
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You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
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I would love to continue acting. Maybe one day I would like to try writing and directing.
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Once in the 1930s, the Inland Revenue did an investigation into Yeats's tax returns because they could not believe someone so famous could have such small sales. One should never allow oneself to be discouraged by small sales. As Pinter says, I stuck to my guns.
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I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting.
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On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent with the mainstream of the Republican Party in the United States and with many Democrats as well.
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I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.
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I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer.
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I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.
