Mahershala Ali Quotes

As an actor, as you grow into where you fit in the industry, you're just trying to find the opportunities, hoping they grow and you get to do more.

Mahershala Ali

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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

Aaron Johnson
- Different
- Trying
- Me
About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.

W. Bruce Cameron
- Life
- Up
- Trying
I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.

J. C. Chandor
- Up
- Family
- Business
There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.

Sam Hunt
- Country
- Trying
- Family
As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

Ian Anderson
- People
- Music
- Trying
I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.

Garth Risk Hallberg
- Trying
- Job
- Focus