Eddie Griffin Quotes
Actually it broke my heart to hear that we were going to have to part ways, ... It's a business and they had to do what they had to do.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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We have, I think, developed an inferiority complex. I think what is needed in India today is the destruction of that defeatist spirit.
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Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
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I will run against anybody.
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
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Putin has put Russia on a path to be a world power with global influence.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
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I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
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Virtue is not photogenic. What is it to be a nice guy? To be nothing, that's what. A big fat zero with a smile for everybody.
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I don't honestly have the time or energy to support anybody else's cause but my own, which is self-expression. So I guess, if I had a cause, it would be education.
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Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
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I'm trying to make a case for those people who don't have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.
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You think you have some stable talent that will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will. Gradually, gradually you gain that confidence.
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When I was a kid, I'd always wanted to take karate, but my parents wouldn't let me because I did a lot of other things, including ballet.
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Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.
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My mother has always kept the entire family together - my dad, due to his business, has always been travelling, and hence, she at times had to play the role of a father and a mother as well.
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Actually it broke my heart to hear that we were going to have to part ways, ... It's a business and they had to do what they had to do.
