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'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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By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, I washed dishes for a living. I had no high-school diploma, I had no agent, and my literary successes were non-existent... but it was the only thing I ever wanted to do, so I did feel trapped.
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The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.
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I have 17 full-time archivists working for me who put away in books all the diversity of artwork I do, from drawing to etching to monotypes to prints to lithographs.
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I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.
