Lupita Nyong'o Quotes
Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors, we are paid to do very intimate things in public. That's why someone can have the audacity to invite you to their home or hotel, and you show up.Lupita Nyong'o
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
Fatima Sana Shaikh -
All I came to Los Angeles with was a dream. No one from my family ever left Ohio.
Haley Bennett -
I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
Cameron Diaz -
I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
Barbara Corcoran -
When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
J. K. Simmons
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
Tamara Ecclestone -
The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
Ice T -
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow -
Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
Karrie Webb -
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton -
This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
Victoria de los Angeles
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
Bebe Rexha -
I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
Ferid Murad -
If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
Ice T -
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
Larry Kramer
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SETI is probably the most important quest of our time, and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.
Arthur C. Clarke -
You only hear the horror stories - that after a baby, you never get your body back - but it's not true; it depends on your life beforehand.
Doutzen Kroes -
Well, obviously I'm not Mark Wahlberg - I have much better abs and I look much better in a pair of Calvin Kleins but when I saw Mark Wahlberg interacting with the world, I realised that his stardom was sort of a result of the movies he had done and the publicity that he had got and the work that he did.
Adrian Grenier -
But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.
Uma Thurman -
If I'm a genre writer, I'm at the edge. In the end, they do work like genre fiction. You have a hero, there's a love interest, there's always a chase, there's fighting of some kind. You don't have to do that in a novel. But you do in a genre novel.
Alan Furst -
Our business is complicated because intimacy is part and parcel of our profession; as actors, we are paid to do very intimate things in public. That's why someone can have the audacity to invite you to their home or hotel, and you show up.
Lupita Nyong'o