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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Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.
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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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When I eat, I always pick out the best parts in the middle and leave everything else on the side. It becomes a big sculptural mess, but there are nice compositional elements about how it all sits on the table.
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Words shld be free. Release them from their sentences.
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I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.
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I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.
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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.
