Samira Wiley Quotes
I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
Quotes to Explore
-
Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
-
One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
-
Slick marketing, high-tech production values, and a practical message have created a product that plays well to today's fickle churchgoer. Megachurches - defined as congregations with more than 2,000 members - number close to 600 in the United States.
-
My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
-
I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
-
Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
-
If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
-
The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
-
I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
-
I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
-
The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
-
In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
-
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
-
It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
-
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
-
I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
-
There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
-
I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
-
While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.
-
There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
-
When I was 20, I was drinking. When I was 30, I was drinking more, and at 40, way too much.
-
Acting goes back a little ways for me. I supposed I started with theater growing up. It was mainly a social outlet and it was just kind of something I did for fun. I met a lot of good friends through it, so it really kept me involved.
-
I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
