Cuba Gooding, Jr. Quotes
I don't choose parts. I choose filmmakers. I'm done trying to make a statement with a character. What happens is, I craft a performance from the beginning to the end of the character. Then I release it to the director, and he interprets what I gave him.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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It's a tough town, it's a loving town, it's a supportive town, and that's why so many great news people, journalists have come through Chicago or are from Chicago.
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When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.
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Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
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Actors are always trying to cry and people are actually trying not to cry.
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Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
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I don't choose parts. I choose filmmakers. I'm done trying to make a statement with a character. What happens is, I craft a performance from the beginning to the end of the character. Then I release it to the director, and he interprets what I gave him.
