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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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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.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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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.
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I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.
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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.
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Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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The frustration for a parent is that you might be available all the time, but the kid may approach you only about 10% of the time.
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My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.
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The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.
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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.
