American - Actor | August 21, 1932 -
When I was in the Air Force, if I walked into a restaurant, in about eight or nine minutes the M.P.'s would show up and drag me out because someone had called saying that someone was impersonating an officer.
Melvin Van Peebles
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I didn't even know I had a legacy.
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I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of that stuff, the art part, you could pick up in an hour and a half.'
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It wasn't really me who invented rap. I stole the idea from Aristide Bruant.
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I'm too short to play basketball and too nervous to steal.
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Don't ask me something if you don't want to know. Because I will tell you.
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Why not have fun, man? If I feel like doing something, I just go ahead and do it.
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I intend to stay dangerous.
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In trying to cross over to the mainstream, some people stopped writing what they witnessed.
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It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.
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Making 'Sweetback' took an exorbitant amount of energy and time.
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I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things.
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