Barry Jenkins Quotes
As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
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When people say hello to me, I feel like maybe I know them from somewhere, because they say, like, 'Hi! How are you?' And I'm like, 'Oh, hi!' And then I realize, 'Oh, no, they just think they know me because they watched me in a movie.' Which is cool, but definitely not a normal thing.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
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Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.
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I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I thought Sarah Palin was the ultimate expression of comic outrageousness in a person.
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My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.
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The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
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The only way I hear gossip is if it's big enough and loud enough for my friends to bring it up to me. Or if it's, like, a big untrue ordeal from my publicist – and she hates making that phone call!
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Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.
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On on-air debates: 'When I get into an argument on the air, the man can always yell louder, if a man fights like hell, he's being forceful; if I raise my voice and fight like hell, I'm being a shrew and a bitch.'
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The only thing I really love is Fiji water. That's like the only crazy request - I don't like any other water.
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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The Lord compensates the faithful for every loss. That which is taken away from those who love the Lord will be added unto them in his own way. While it may not come at the time we desire, the faithful will know that every tear today will eventually be returned a hundredfold with tears of rejoicing and gratitude.
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As a person of color from the South, San Francisco was the first city that really made me feel like an other.
