Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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• Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • History
  • Me
  • Philosophy

• So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Heart
  • Pressure
  • Argument

• My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • God
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Board
  • Chairman

• I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I was like seven, and I am like, 'What does that mean.'

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Up
  • Business
  • Remember

• Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Love
  • Food

• The soul is so far from being a monad that we have not only to interpret other souls to ourself but to interpret ourself to ourself.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Soul
  • Being
  • Far

• All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Art

• One time, when I was really little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• Πιθανὸς ἄγαν ὁ θῆλυς ὅρος ἐπινέμεταιταχύπορος· ἀλλὰ ταχύμορονγυναικογήρυτον ὄλλυται κλέος.

  

  Aeschylus

• Suicidez-vous, désespérés, et vous, torturés du corps et de l'âme, perdez tout espoir. Il n'y a plus pour vous de soulagement en ce monde. Le monde vit de vos charniers.

  

  Antonin Artaud

• I was a fat child; I was asthmatic. No wonder I'm a hypochondriac.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Wonder

• I live in Venice, where I can roll out of bed in my pajamas, so I tend to fly under the radar - and I hope that continues.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Fly

• My heroes were always Looney Toons, Robin Williams, the Three Stooges. I think everything I do is kinda funny. I think I'm sort of ridiculous.

  

  Ben Foster
  • Funny

• Well, usually when you talk about a mandate, you're talking about an overwhelming win. I don't think by any measurement the 2004 election was an overwhelming win.

  

  Lincoln Chafee

• I look at the way that my kids interact with technology, and it becomes a mirror to the ways in which I myself interact with technology. I can see the ways in which that addiction and compulsion starts to settle in on them, and it's much more unnerving to see it in them than it is to experience it myself.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Experience
  • Kids
  • Technology

• To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

  

  Marshall Allman
  • Character
  • Compassion

• ROTC programs at Ivy League campuses would liberalize the military. That can only be good for this country.

  

  Evan Wright
  • Country
  • Military
  • League

• I love playing sport.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Love
  • Playing
  • Sport

• 'Weasels - and stoats - and foxes - and so on. They're all right in a way - I'm very good friends with them - pass the time of day when we meet, and all that - but they break out sometimes, there's no denying it, and then - well, you can't really trust them, and that's the fact.'

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • Time
  • Good
  • Friends

• I grew up in a family much like the 'Jerry Springer Show'

  

  Chris Cagle
  • Family
  • Like
  • Grew Up

• As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje