Mahershala Ali Quotes

When I was growing up, I was told you could be anything you want to be, but I didn't really believe that because you couldn't be president. Like, I knew that; we never had a black president.

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• How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Time
  • Small
  • Sweet

• My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Black
  • Dad

• The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Time
  • Work
  • Game

• I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Strength
  • Gain
  • Surroundings

• I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • Career
  • Man
  • Amazing

• I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Doing
  • Just
  • Concentrate

• As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • People
  • Time
  • Nice

• The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Broken

• People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Night
  • Year

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Free
  • Know
  • Slavery

• So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Art
  • America
  • High

• Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Woman

• I would say our sound is soul pop.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Soul
  • Sound
  • Say

• If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Think
  • Artists
  • Actually

• I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

  

  Ed Helms
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • People
  • Real
  • Interesting

• Coach Wooden, when he speaks, you listen. I've taken a lot of things from him and his little blue book because to him, it's not just about basketball, it's about life as well.

  

  Kevin Love
  • Life
  • Book
  • Taken

• The Internet has become the go-to place to toss out ideas in the hope that they could lead to a job, but it has also become the place where people go to find the best ideas, creating a lopsided dynamic that tends to benefit people in power.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • People
  • Job
  • Power

• My very, very first moment on set on 'Lord of the Rings' in 2000 was me in a lycra suit, six and a half thousand feet up on a mountain in New Zealand, standing in front of 250 crew who were all wondering what I was doing - myself included.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Up
  • Mountain

• When I was growing up, I was told you could be anything you want to be, but I didn't really believe that because you couldn't be president. Like, I knew that; we never had a black president.

  

  Mahershala Ali
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