Andre Benjamin Quotes

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

Andre Benjamin

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• Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Live
  • Funny
  • Amazing

• I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Career
  • Growing

• I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Everyone

• I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Think
  • Like
  • Young

• As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.

  

  Washed Out
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Growing

• I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Up
  • World
  • Creative

• Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Government
  • Students
  • Mercy

• I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Real

• Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Great
  • You
  • Acting

• It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Great
  • Game
  • Career

• I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • You
  • Famous
  • Theory

• The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Fun

• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Personal

• Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Creative

• The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Great
  • Kind
  • Literature

• The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Mode

• A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Things
  • Inspiration
  • Banal

• I have such freedom when I'm living through a mask, and by contrast, can feel very exposed when a camera is capturing my real face. Kind of like the difference between walking out your front door in a sweater and jeans or in a Speedo.

  

  Doug Jones
  • Real
  • Freedom
  • Door

• Mom raised me all by herself, and although we went through our share of lean years, she always worked hard to make our home warm and welcoming.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Home
  • She
  • Mom

• There was no substitute for reality; one should be aware of imitations.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Reality

• Josephine Baker is such an iconic woman that once you've touched her and she has touched you, it never goes away. I'm stuck with her. I'm sure 50 years from now, when they write my obituary, they will mention that I played Josephine Baker. It'll be on my epitaph.

  

  Lynn Whitfield
  • She

• The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust.

  

  Diogenes

• But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

  

  Andre Benjamin
  • Art