Damon Wayans, Jr. Quotes
Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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I have a pair of Rodarte leggings. They're crazy, but I wore them for one day, and then by the end of the day they weren't tearing, but they were getting a little loose.
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When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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Not even death can wipe out our good deeds.
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Filmmaking creates a sort of - trust, maybe. It has led me to a group of people I feel good with. We have something in common because of film, when otherwise we might have nothing.
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I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.
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I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.
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Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
