Lee Daniels Quotes

I like to show the grey area in all my characters.

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• When you really start figuring things out as a quarterback, you realize you don't have to be perfect every time, but you do have to be quick and decisive.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Start

• There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Parents
  • Marriage
  • Struggle

• Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Keeps

• In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Business
  • Reading

• I really like children to watch my movies.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Children
  • Movies
  • Watch

• I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Different
  • Studio

• There is always anxiety before a competition and it was no different for me today. It was only in the third round, with about 40 targets left, that I realised I could match the world record score.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • World
  • Different
  • Today

• I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Never
  • See
  • Generation

• I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Think
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.

  

  Kate Burton
  • Interesting
  • Most
  • Parts

• You shouldn't have regrets. I'd say instead that I've learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they've also made me who I am today.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Today
  • Lessons
  • Regrets

• Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Brain

• It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Year

• At night I wake up and think, What color will make me feel better when I soak in the bathtub for an hour? I want everyone who's dreaming of a glamorous life to know that I'd trade a good bath any day for the heels, the hair, the makeup, the tight dresses, the photographs, the small talk.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• The only good time to say I have diarrhea is during a game of Scrabble, because it's worth a shitload of points.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Game

• 'Come on boy, get up.'

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
  • Boy

• Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

  

  Mason Cooley

• I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• I used to help my grandfather on the farm, driving tractors, raising crops and animals. I used to feed some of the baby cows and pigs, and I had to be no older than 7 or 8. Then at about 9 or 10 I started driving tractors. It showed me at an early age what hard work was all about and how dedicated you have to be, no matter what you do.

  

  Tyson Chandler
  • Work
  • Help
  • Age

• Your body has such a memory.

  

  Kristanna Loken

• Dark bread like rye or pumpernickel is much healthier than the refined white bread favored by many Americans.

  

  Harley Pasternak
  • Americans
  • Dark bread
  • White bread

• I like to show the grey area in all my characters.

  

  Lee Daniels