Mahershala Ali Quotes
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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I do admit to being slightly in love with Christopher Walken.
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I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader.
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When it comes to the president, we have to respect him, we have to protect him, and we have to correct him. And in my career, since he'd been on the national stage at least, I've had - I've always respected the president.
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I was very fortunate, during my early years as a paleontologist, in that my field crews and I made some remarkable discoveries indicating dinosaurs to have been extremely social.
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Once in a while, I need to go out of my way to do different films, to exploit all commercial angles to cater to the masses.
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Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
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'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son. This time around, I wanted a father and a son who really loved each other, which would be visible on the first page and would still be there on the last page.
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Ambassadors are, by definition, foreign bodies.
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At the end of the day, if I can say that I had a career where I was able to play all different kinds of characters and I'm known as someone who is well-respected for my approach to the craft, that would be a beautiful life.
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It's easy to be a people-pleaser, but that's not what makes me happy.
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I've spent my life being embarrassed.
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A lot of people view science as dull or boring, and I think the stance we take, using humour, not taking ourselves too seriously... I think people enjoy that. I think it's quite refreshing.
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The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.
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Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.
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I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most.
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Everyone I've ever played has been flawed.
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People really like the fact that I've worked at their job. It gives them a good feeling that I've experienced, even for a few hours, what they do on the job.
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Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.
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All chess players know what a combination is. Whether one makes it oneself, or is its victim, or reads of it, it stands out from the rest of the game and stirs one's admiration.
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You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.
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I'm intelligent enough and capable enough to understand that you are ignorant, pompous, egotistical, cretin. I'm going to crush you on here because I'm tired of hearing about it.
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Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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'Mahershala' is my nickname.
