Me Quotes
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In the last 'Batman' movie, they told me that I couldn't get an audition for a small role they were casting because they weren't 'going urban.' It was like, 'What does that have to do with anything?'
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It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.
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I was under 18, and to leave Kenya to come to the United States, to get a passport, you had to be 18. So I lied and said I was 19 to get the passport, because otherwise, I had to have permission from my parents, and my parents would never have let me come.
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I believe in conscientious capitalism; that's a kind of driving force with me.
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Being a psychologist did enable me to maintain objectivity.
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Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
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My aunts still try to fatten me up.
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I remember the first time my friend Colin Lewis, who used to be a judge with me on a show on MuchMusic called 'disBAND,' told me, 'I think I just found your next favorite artist to adore.' He sent me The Weeknd, and he was completely spot on. The Weeknd is literally on every playlist I have.
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Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
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People think I'm going to be this really dark human when they meet me.
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When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.
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My natural inclination to be improv rather than an educated character serves me well.
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There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.
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New Orleans will always be in my heart. New Orleans raised me - it's in my blood.
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I try to hire people I don't have to motivate. But I do motivate the people working with and for me.
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There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
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I get a lot of fan mail and stuff, and usually it's for me to sign stuff.
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Lyrics are really important for me.
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The most important thing to me is how hard we go after the ball and take care of it.
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I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.
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I've done nothing wrong. Some people just don't like me. Maybe I'm somebody that's easy to dislike, but I don't get it. Whatever. I'll do what I do.
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I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me yet.
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In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.
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I don't think I've ever tried to make something happen that I've absolutely had to force. You know how they say: if you can't avoid it, enjoy it. For me, it's the other way around: if I can't enjoy it, I avoid it.
