Joe Morton Quotes

The most frightening thing about playing Dick Gregory is I've never done stand-up before, and I had to learn how to be a stand-up comedian, which was a bit of a challenge.

Joe Morton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 18, 1947

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ChallengeLearnDoneNeverPlaying

There are thousands of Eminems. Just listen to a song. There are thousands of them. It's just that he had the talent. It's like someone with a talent to hit a baseball. He had the talent to write lyrics.

Jimmy Iovine

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I was a house dad. Once, my wife was working as a dispatcher at the fire department, and I was staying home and writing while baby-sitting my son, who hardly ever slept. So I wrote in twenty-minute patches. Some of that early stuff is just dreadful. I got a thousand rejects.

Joe R. Lansdale

HomeSonFireWifeWritingEarly

It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.

John Carmack

GameNiceMillionCopiesSells

Long ago, I realized that my only talent - aside from the rugged good looks, of course, and the strange power I hold over elderly women - can be reduced to a single word: doggedness.

Michael Dirda

GoodWomenPowerTalentLongLooks

You'll notice that my books offer great variety. Some are for adults, some for children and some for teens. There are mysteries, historical novels, picture books, love stories and stories of crisis and courage.

Sonia Levitin

LoveCourageChildrenGreatPicture

Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

Romain Rolland

FaithTomorrowYesterdayWay

I've been an Arsenal fan since I was a kid.

Michy Batshuayi

KidBeenFanSinceArsenal

Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

Penelope Spheeris

MyselfMoneyPrintStudioKidding

Anyone who's stood on the floor of a set knows nothing gets done by itself.

Tim Van Patten

DoneNothingFloorSetKnowsAnyone

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

Marina Abramovic

I AmMeIdeasFeelBecomeAfraid

I often ask people what I did wrong in the last meeting, because then others feel they have permission to own their mistakes, too.

Marne Levine

MistakesPeopleFeelWrongMeeting

I don't go, 'It is now time to change Americans' perception of Muslims. It's going to be a long day.' I think you just try to be unique and try to be yourself, and if something good comes of that, then great.

Kumail Nanjiani

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