Ato Essandoh Quotes
My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
-
I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody – somewhere – was practicing more than me.
-
Justice is revenge.
-
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
-
In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
-
I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
-
I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
-
The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.
-
I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
-
I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
-
In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
-
Some of the greatest relationship films of all time, the two stars have hated each other, but mostly you see that chemistry.
-
Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
-
Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
-
But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
-
You have to stay on top and learn from mistakes.
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
-
I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.
-
You lose your home, you lose your community, you lose your school, you lose your stuff.
-
When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.
-
Being an author is fun. It's a great job, because I can stay up as late as I want, and if I feel like taking the day off, I do it. Plus, I get to make up silly stories and draw pictures all day.
-
It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.
-
I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country.
-
My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.
