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.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • High
  • Want

• We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Freedom
  • Security
  • Plan

• When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Work
  • Understand

• It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Will
  • Going
  • Guess

• You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Know
  • Boy

• 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.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Small
  • Travel
  • Summer

• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • You
  • Enough
  • Possible

• 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.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Children
  • Family
  • Service

• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Perfection

• In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • You
  • End
  • Yourself

• Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • People
  • You
  • Happiness

• 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.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • People
  • Brain
  • Model

• 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.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Great
  • Why

• When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Picture
  • Person
  • Wants

• Americans call them hillbillies, rednecks, or white trash. I call them neighbors, friends, and family.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Trash

• 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.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Life
  • Creative

• 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.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • Time
  • Community
  • Genius

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Will
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Move
  • Generous
  • Mortality

• They're a very unique offense; we knew that. They came out, especially in the first two series, in some things we didn't prepare for. They came out with two backs, which wasn't a high priority for them a year ago.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Priority
  • Prepare
  • Offense

• I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Nice

• Everything I've ever learned about acting - and I went to theater school - was about playing what the character wants and throwing yourself fully into going after what the character wants.

  

  J. August Richards
  • School
  • Character
  • Yourself

• NBC was trying to convert all of their local programming to color right away to encourage the sale of the sets, so I barely remember working in black and white, although I do know that I did do it, but there was not a major difference, though.

  

  Jim Henson
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.
  • Trying
  • Done
  • Character