Morris Chestnut Quotes
I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.
Quotes to Explore
-
The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
-
I'm a warrior for the middle class.
-
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
-
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
-
I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
-
What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
-
Apple very deliberately - and this was very much Steve Jobs' point of view - Apple has concentrated its cloud efforts on being invisible. So in other words, stuff just would sync and appear. You change your contacts on one of your devices, and it would appear on all your devices changed.
-
All my movies are achingly personal.
-
There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.
-
The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.
-
I've done a little directing, but I love acting more.
-
If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
-
A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI.
-
Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique.
-
It's good to have a governing body to oversee matters in making of films, but you can't blame films for what is happening in society.
-
I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it.
-
It really wasn't until I realized that country music had a whole underworld of songwriters that I dug into it.
-
Each director is different. Clint Eastwood and Chris Nolan are completely different, and I need to adjust to the story and character and the director and just my duty as an actor.
-
It's a lovely thing to have people in any circumstance appreciate your work.
-
You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there's nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that same existential rift.
-
Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.
-
The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.
-
It was an honor to serve at Boeing on the 777.
-
I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.
