Mahershala Ali Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.
-
I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
-
I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
-
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
-
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
-
The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
-
I'm not a long-term member of the 'Breaking Bad' family.
-
I wanted to make a home that was similar to the kind of home that my mother made. To be able to create something like that in my adopted city, New York City, one of the toughest cities on the planet, is really special.
-
We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.
-
Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor … Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done - and was about to do.
-
I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and torture the keys. My one saving grace as a writer is that, if I'm having trouble with the novel I'm writing, I write something else, a poem or a short story. I try to avoid writer's block by always writing something.
-
I think I approach pressure by having discipline and learning to be calm in everyday life. I do this with a daily mindfulness practice and commitment.
-
I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.
-
'Chronicle 2' has become this question of, 'How do we all make a movie that we all respect?' And that's true to what 'Chronicle' is. There's no one at the studio who wants to make a bad movie. They all want to make a good movie just as much as I do.
-
I wanna cover more ground, get a bigger fan base.
-
I love the new legal immigrants; they want their kids to be safe just like I do.
-
The stage is near and dear to me.
-
Too many things on my mind, said Wilbur. Well, said the goose, that's not my trouble. I have nothing at all on my mind, but I've too many things under my behind.
-
I am sure that the Japanese, the Chinese and the peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France, in spite of the fact that we are related by blood (...)
-
I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.
-
My understanding of God is an experience. God is. That's all I know. In the Biblical tradition, it would be expressed as, "Be still and know that I am God." God is the "I am" energy. Something huge is at play here - cosmic creativity, consciousness, God, whatever you want to call it. I do believe that it's a guided ride. We're on a guided tour of the universe.
-
What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.
-
Marvel has such a huge slice of the pie.
