Tionne Watkins Quotes
'Waterfalls' spoke to so many people at a time where people needed to feel like somebody was on their side.
Quotes to Explore
-
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
-
Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
-
I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
-
I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
-
We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
-
I'm very open-minded.
-
I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
-
All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
-
I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
-
What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
-
In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
-
I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
-
It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
-
One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
-
I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
-
American democracy in the past has always been known for its large middle class and its relatively few very wealthy people and very few very poor people, but that is gone to today and the middle class is shrinking.
-
I've been around the bend in corporations.
-
As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
-
I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
-
I'd happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn't have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
-
What I love about YouTube is that you don't need brands to pay you, because you get paid off the views. When I put effort into YouTube, I directly see money back.
-
Never again to wiggle your toes. What a hell of a thing, what a wonderful, beautiful thing, to wiggle your toes.
-
'Waterfalls' spoke to so many people at a time where people needed to feel like somebody was on their side.
