Jeffrey Wright Quotes

If a director can't figure out what they might get from me or whether he or she wants to work with me based on what I've done, then I can't tell them anything more than what they don't know already.

Jeffrey Wright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkMeKnowDoneMoreShe

If I've gotten to a point where people want to see something because I'm in it, I'm grateful and humbled. But having an awareness of that doesn't help me do what I need to do, I think.

Jessie Mueller

GratefulPeopleMeThinkHelpWant

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.

John Patrick Shanley

PeopleWritingSomeoneYouHouse

When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.

Simon Hoggart

FamilyCityYouWallStudentGlass

Hollywood is a challenging place; it's very easy for people to lose their heads. Fortunately, I grew up on it and I think I have a little bit of a head start.

Troian Bellisario

PeopleStartThinkEasyLosePlace

Freak diets I don't think work. It's control.

Mary Berry

WorkControlThinkFreakDiets

What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.

Dewitt Bodeen

HusbandNothingHimTellDoesTells

I'm very proud of my daughter. She accomplished a whole lot in the short time that she had here... she was a very wonderful person.

Cissy Houston

DaughterTimeProudShortPerson

For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.

Britney Spears

SuccessHappyMindMeFeelYou

In the eye, there is a type of junk that accumulates in the back of the retina that eventually causes us to go blind. It's called age-related macular degeneration.

Aubrey de Grey

EyeBlindBackGoUsJunk

If music be the food of love, play on.

William Shakespeare

LoveMusicFoodPlay

People have a very political way of looking at war, and that's understandable.

Phil Klay

WarPeopleLookingPoliticalWay

I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music.

Peter Maxwell Davies

MusicGreatThinkSeePiecesDeal

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