Candice Patton Quotes
I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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My hair changes with my emotions... and my purpose for the day.
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The Swiss can be very difficult.
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You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.
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This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
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I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.
