Lee Daniels Quotes
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I went to school at Radnor High School. And I went to a liberal arts college in St. Louis, Missouri, called Lindenwood College.
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'Push' had a story, 'The Paperboy' story you could just throw up in the air and shoot holes through the book because the story wasn't as strong. But I felt the characters were stronger in 'The Paperboy'; they were vivid.
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I think it's very important that we don't sound like militants. Often what we do is we give a comment, and because it comes across with passion, then we're 'angry black people.'
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Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture.
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Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in.
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With TV, you're in people's houses every night. And you have so much time to tell stories. I don't know why I didn't do it before.
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Some of my friends don't have a cell phone. Patti LaBelle doesn't have a cell phone.
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I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust.
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I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.
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I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.
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I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.
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I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker.
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My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging that with music and the hip-hop world. He wrote 'The Butler' and originally wanted to do 'Empire' also as a movie.
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What attracts me to material are characters that I know - characters that I know people don't know but I know - and bringing them to the screen. Spotlighting voices that have not been heard before on screen.
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I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed.
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It's hard for me to accept love. I wish I could lie to you and tell you that it's easy for me, but it's not.
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I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting.
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I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it's someone else's reflection they see.
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I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.
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I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film.
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America is fickle. You never know what they're going to go for.
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My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers.
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I'm always more comfortable and in a good place when I'm with friends because I know they trust me. I'm able to get great performances from people who trust me.
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I'm not really vegan. I'm vegan-ish. I have a piece of lamb every now and then.