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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We will, as Americans, inhale another culture on a fork before we try their music or their art or even, God forbid, hang out with the actual people.
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When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
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In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality, a lot of getaway drivers would actually choose, like, commuter cars and find a way to blend into freeway traffic as quickly as possible.
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I remember certain lines and whose they are.
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Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.
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I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.
