Malcolm D. Lee Quotes
I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the first teacher who said I was a good writer - and I'd never heard that before. And so I remember that, and I remember that level of loving the material and really loving writing about it.
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In this business, it's easy for either your heart or your head to be swayed, and I try to always stay true to who I am.
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White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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I'm no producer's kid.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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In those days, man, in the '50s, black people in the South... We didn't recognize contracts that much. And we didn't recognize marriages that much, either.
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I did no research on 'The Best Man.' That was something that came out from my own head.
