Dalai Lama Quotes
I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.
Quotes to Explore
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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I love bayou life.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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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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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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I've looked after my money. As I started working around my third birthday, my first check went straight to the bank.
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As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
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I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.
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I never got a job I didn't create for myself.
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People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
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As a keen political observer, I've noticed that most people do not really vote for someone for the Presidency as much as they vote against the other candidate. And I think President Johnston's sic decision was unfair to these people.
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The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!
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I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner.
