American - Actor | December 24, 1959 -
I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it's someone else's reflection they see.
Lee Daniels
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I'm not Tyler Perry. I'm not Dino De Laurentis. I think it's a bit much to put one's name in front of the film. It makes me uncomfortable.
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'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be.
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I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed.
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I don't profess to be Shonda Rhimes by any stretch of the imagination, or Dick Wolf. They're icons. I'm a filmmaker.
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I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up.
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My mom had five kids. And she came home after working three jobs, and I'd rub her feet. We'd all rub her feet. We were lucky to get any time with her.
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My mom knew early on that I was gay, and she knew that I had to get out of the ghetto.
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Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS.
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I drank from colored water fountains and from the white water fountain just to see what it was like when I was a kid. What shocks me is that these kids today don't realize that this happened in many of our lifetimes.
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Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be.
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I love black women. I live for them. They are everything to me. I'm obsessed with them. They are sophisticated, resilient and smarter than me.
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