Jeffrey Wright Quotes

I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outshined me. That was by design. And I'm not wanting for appreciation.

Jeffrey Wright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 7, 1965

Topics

I AmAppreciationMindMeThink

Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise.

Joe Dempsie

Just BecauseMoreCruiseWatchJust

I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.

Jesmyn Ward

FamilySmallBorderSmall TownEdge

It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future.

John Desmond Bernal

FuturePastThoughtPresentWill

Making 'Sweetback' took an exorbitant amount of energy and time.

Melvin Van Peebles

TimeEnergyMakingTookAmount

You can't think 'Dole' without thinking 'Bob Dole' and cartoons and third-person good times. He was one of those politicians: the kind you jabbed but were happy enough to have around.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

GoodHappyGood TimesThinkThinking

Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers' movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.

Michael E. Mann

RainSmokingDownPollutionMovement

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

Amber Tamblyn

WorkBusinessLuckYouActingOut

The biggest thing for me is earning the respect of my fellow players and coaches. I think that is why I was a little bit emotional. You don't get a haka done to you from the brothers for no reason if they don't respect you.

Sonny Bill Williams

RespectMeThinkYouDoneWhy

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

WithoutManyToo

God has always given me the strength to say what is right.

Rosa Parks

StrengthGodMeSayRightAlways

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

Mary Shelley

DreamsMoreFantasticThanOnce

It was a mistake of mine to train like that, with friends, at home. It was a handicap I should not have given myself. In Croatia, we do not have big camps like in other countries, but I was not willing to go away to train.

Mirko Cro Cop

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