Cuba Gooding, Jr. Quotes
Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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Opera was the cinema of its time, so to bring back that popular appeal, you just need to unleash its visceral immediacy and excitement. Most productions don't manage that - but when an opera does do it, you never forget it.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.
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The people who ask me for my autograph are the people who've put me here today, and you can't afford to forget that.
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There's always a sense that people will do things quite differently if they think they have privacy.
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There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever--the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.
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Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.
