Mahershala Ali Quotes
I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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I'm a huge gamer. I play a lot of games, and I play one game until I'm really, really good at it.
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I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.
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I got to the big leagues when I was 20. I thought I had it all figured out. Went to spring training that next year and started off well, got sent down, and I pouted pretty much all of 2000. And it wasn't the right way to handle it.
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Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
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So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.
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I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
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Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think.
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I studied mass media and brand management and was looking to do an MBA. When an acting offer came by, I thought I'll do one film so that it would look good on my CV. Films happened one after another, in different industries. I'm so glad things turned out the way they did.
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Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
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Who would have ever thought that, within a couple months of getting into the WWE, that I'd be wrestling in the main event for the world championship? Then, nine months after getting here, actually being the world champion.
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My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.
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You can't get someone to like something they aren't feeling. After you press play, there isn't anything you can do.
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I'm not exactly a guy who makes new friends easily.
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Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.
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Stress makes us prone to tunnel vision, less likely to take in the information we need. Anxiety makes us more risk-averse than we would be regularly and more deferential.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
