Angela Bassett Quotes

I want to be evil! I did play Lady Macbeth on stage to Alec Baldwin's Macbeth back in New York in 1998. But I've played a lot of characters who are so righteous and understanding. I don't want to be a goody-goody two-shoes all the time.

Angela Bassett

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• They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Life
  • True
  • Sleep

• I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • People
  • Women
  • She

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Insult

• Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • America
  • Night
  • Car

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Character
  • Like
  • Story

• I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Difference
  • Second Place

• Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Different
  • Children
  • Health

• I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Boxing
  • Land
  • Boxer

• Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?

  

  Ira Glass
  • Book
  • Moving
  • Listening

• When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Long
  • Day
  • Health

• I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

  

  Larry David
  • Walking
  • Dying
  • Talking

• Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Done
  • Say

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

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mean
  • Smart
  • Crime

• I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Children
  • Never
  • Place

• Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry.

  

  Jesse McCartney
  • Time
  • Music

• Starting on February 1, 2010, and running through until May 30, I will be Toronto Public Library's Writer in Residence, working out of the Merril Collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculation at the Lillian H. Smith branch at College and Spadina.

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • May
  • Science
  • Running

• I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Why
  • California
  • Loved

• Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

  

  Alan Moore

• I'm sometimes described as a flamboyant leader and a hip-shooter, a fly-by-the-seat-of-the-pants operator. But if that were true, I could never have been successful in this business.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Business
  • True
  • Fly

• I want to be evil! I did play Lady Macbeth on stage to Alec Baldwin's Macbeth back in New York in 1998. But I've played a lot of characters who are so righteous and understanding. I don't want to be a goody-goody two-shoes all the time.

  

  Angela Bassett
  • Time
  • Evil
  • Understanding