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

• I had a band called the Sound Of Love, and that was R&B songs about girls in my high school. I played in some other indie bands who were trying to make it big; those sucked. Then I started Makeout Videotape, and that was that.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • School
  • Band
  • Songs

• 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

• I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• 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

• Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money

• 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

• I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Greek

• 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

• Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Good
  • Husband

• There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Genius
  • Insanity
  • Line

• I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Fun
  • Having Fun

• It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Mean

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

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje