Leon Bridges (Todd Michael Bridges) Quotes

Dance really built my confidence on stage. I'm still a shy person. But I have a lot more confidence than I did when I started.

Leon Bridges

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• Dance

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• People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.

  

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• Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.

  

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• For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music.

  

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• Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.

  

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• I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.

  

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• When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

  

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• I grew fond of acting rather late. And that was because I was not getting any job. I had a few friends in Delhi who were associated with theater. They took me to see some plays in Delhi and Baroda. That led me to believe the I could also act. And it was after that I joined National School of Drama in 1993.

  

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• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

  

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• Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, 'I love this, but I wouldn't put my daughter on the stage.'

  

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• Don't monitor your online savings account in real time.

  

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• Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

  

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• Hollywood forgets easily. I want to be fulfilled and challenged.

  

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• But more than anything I kind of pride myself in continuing the process that we're trying to accomplish, and that's just to get better and work on my fundamentals. So that's been kind of in the theme now for a couple years and we stuck with it and that's kind of what I want to keep doing.

  

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• I think there is something to be said for not feeling like just because you're a model you have to be dressed up, look amazing, go to every party, and be smiling all the time.

  

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• You're gifted to do something.

  

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• I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.

  

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• Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

  

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• Pay attention to how you think and speak, and if it turns out that you're sounding snide or crappy or doubtful, make the conscious decision to change.

  

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• My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.

  

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• I pray that all polar opposites learn to Agape Love, live and work together as brothers and sisters - or perish as fools. While I voted for Mr. Trump, my confidence remains in God, for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Prayers for President-elect Trump, Congressman Lewis, and everyone including leaders.

  

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• The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

  

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• Dance really built my confidence on stage. I'm still a shy person. But I have a lot more confidence than I did when I started.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • Confidence
  • Dance