American - Actor | April 6, 1937 -
The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.
Billy Dee Williams
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You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.
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As for Colt 45, I am very proud of my endorsement of the product, and it still 'Works every time.'
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I tell my son Corey that the greatest teacher is the teacher who says, 'Don't follow me; follow yourself. Because within you there is that kingdom, that life, that force.'
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I don't know why everybody thinks I'm smooth. I think I'm just a pretty silly person, really.
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If anything, I've seen myself as the full spectrum of colors, and to be faced with not being able to do something just because I'm of a particular race has been something that I've always found very difficult - even today.
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I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.
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I want people to see my heart, what I feel - not as one of America's best black actors but as one of the best actors.
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I take very good care of myself, and I've still got a lot of things I need and want to do - and I am still cute. Retiring seems like such a remote thing to me. The whole idea of it.
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Power is a very peculiar thing. It's like the ego. The ego's only there to keep you above water. Once we realize something good about ourselves, we have a tendency to abuse the gift.
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It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.
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I think of film when I paint. Even the luminosity that I always keep working for is really about film. But my idea is not to paint paintings that will decorate somebody's house.
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