Colman Domingo Quotes
Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.
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I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it.
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Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
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If there are men who regret the Good Old Times, without too clear a notion of what they were, they should at least be thankful that we are rid of that misguided energy of faith which justifies conscience in making men unrelentingly cruel.
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Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.
