Bobby Rush (Emmett Ellis Jr.) Quotes
I’m probably the only artist who has sold close to a million records from the trunk of my car.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
-
You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
-
I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
-
The impact we have on people's lives, to me, is more important than any title anyone can carry.
-
I actually started working in Chicago while I was still a student; I did the Chicago premiere of 'The History Boys' at the end of my junior year. I had come to Chicago for Northwestern University. I didn't quite know about the theater community, and what I did know was mostly the improv.
-
Hey, you've got the girl, I've got the picture. That's fair, right?
-
Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.
-
I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
-
Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
-
The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
-
Did you really think I would be this excited about college if I thought I'd be leaving my girl behind?
-
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
-
If Madonna ran off crying that would be very funny though, heheheh!
-
Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
-
Parents, do you wish to see your children happy? Take care, then, that you train them to obey when they are spoken to, -to do as they are bid.... Teach them to obey while young, or else they will be fretting against God all their lives long, and wear themselves out with the vain idea of being independent of His control.
-
I am a passionate believer that comedy is a way of tackling some of the most dark and difficult aspects of being a human being.
-
I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.
-
Everyone uses noise as a crutch sometimes - I've totally done it. But when you make a good-sounding record there's nothing there but you.
