Courtney B. Vance Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
-
I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
-
It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
-
I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
-
I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
-
I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
-
Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
-
I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
-
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
-
I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
-
I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
-
Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
-
I look a lot like my father and his mother.
-
I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
-
I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.
-
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
-
Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
-
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
-
People are always asking me what it's like to be Judy Garland's daughter. It's hard to be a legend's child.
-
Lotus-land as it appears in 'Free Will' is simply a metaphor for an idealized background, a 'land of milk and honey.' It is sometimes also used as a pejorative name for Los Angeles, though that was not in my mind when I wrote it.
-
The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
-
If I set off to do something, why not do it properly? Otherwise, what's the point?
-
I've done a lot of movies, but my favorite was 'Blind Faith.'
