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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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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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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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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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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I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
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I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
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There are some great human beings out there. That's all I can say.
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is not a story we didn't know about or anything like that, but it's just something that resonated really well... It had no choice but to explode.
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You have people around the country who are benefitting from the steps that we've taken [with Obamacare] and as long as they continue to get helped, then at least I'll know in my own mind that the work we did here had a lasting impact.
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Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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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.
