Angela Bassett Quotes

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

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• If I started worrying about how my constituents are going to react to every move I make, I wouldn't be able to do my job here. I'll do what I think is right and explain it later.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Job
  • Think
  • Right

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Difficult

• 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

• We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • May
  • Say
  • Flowers

• In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Small
  • Always
  • Enjoy

• In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Experience
  • Writer
  • Letter

• Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Up
  • You
  • Tough

• The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Music
  • American
  • Parents

• I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beyonce

• I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Black

• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Photography

• Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Yourself
  • Healing
  • Moving On

• A laugh is a terrible weapon.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Laugh
  • Terrible
  • Weapon

• Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • School
  • Home
  • Career

• 'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mean
  • Smart
  • Crime

• Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Bad
  • Door
  • Calm

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• I've never met a deadline I couldn't miss. I make sure my editors know this.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Missing
  • Deadline

• It is a curious little world within itself

  

  Charles Darwin
  • World

• I've woven them a garment that's prepared out of poor words, those that I overheard, and will hold fast to every word and glance all of my days, even in new mischance, and if a gag should bind my tortured mouth, through which a hundred million people shout, then let them pray for me, as I do pray for them, this eve of my remembrance day.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • People
  • Words

• A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Nation
  • Believes

• I'm in the middle of my own 'Project Runway' challenge given to me by my daughter's preschool. All the parents have to make an outfit for their kids, for school pictures, made entirely out of recycled objects. I can not believe I have homework.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Believe
  • School
  • Kids

• I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

  

  Angela Bassett
  • God
  • Believe
  • Career