J. B. Smoove Quotes

I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

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• The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • Great
  • Same

• I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Black
  • Artist
  • Detroit

• The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Resolve
  • Our
  • Collective

• New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • City
  • Always
  • New York

• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • War
  • Me
  • Amazing

• For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Society

• As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Time
  • World
  • Growing

• For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • True
  • Dream
  • Reality

• Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Fire

• Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Opportunity
  • Procrastination
  • Assassin

• I loved things like Destiny's Child, and Amy Winehouse's first record came out when I was 11 years old. But as a young, young child, I was just surrounded by Stevie Wonder, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan - just massive, soulful voices.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Wonder
  • Child
  • Destiny

• You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.

  

  Yeardley Smith
  • You
  • Monster
  • Buildings

• Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Simplicity
  • Reliability

• For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Remember

• Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Different
  • You
  • Looking

• Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Father
  • Relationship
  • Day

• You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • You
  • Christian

• We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Friends
  • High

• If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Think
  • Bored
  • Awards

• Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Great
  • Working
  • Jack

• The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Service

• The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • Good
  • Beautiful
  • Way

• I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me