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Angela Bassett Quotes

I'd tell my 20-year-old self, 'Don't be afraid to do it all. Whatever you're interested in, just go for it. Don't wait around for a better time.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: August 16, 1958

Topics

Time Wait Self Better You Go

Doing a truncated series is like doing a long movie, which allows for a certain artistic freedom. After just 12 episodes, you can take a breather and do other things for your career.

Freedom Doing Long You Career Take

How much do we owe the people we love? Now I would add a follow-up question: How do we cope with the fact that we can't necessarily give the people we love what they need?

Love People Now Question Need Give

I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

Steven Spielberg

Science Want Science Fiction Fiction

Hollywood stops hiring their star leading ladies when they turn 40. It's very defeating.

Hollywood Turn Star Hiring Leading

The media had me convicted of doing something wrong before I had even done anything at all, before I had talked to anyone, before I get out of bed. I'm always the bad person.

Me Doing Media Bad Wrong Person

I guess I always think the people that know me or fans that have followed me and know my solo work would know that I've always had really eclectic tastes - even in Motley, dude.

Work People Me Think Know Always

I did a couple of films, I was very lucky at the beginning of my career... and then, I never had another job here for ten years probably and I moved to Europe.

Job Beginning Career Lucky Never

Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.

Masaharu Morimoto

Time Food School High School Learn

I moved to Los Angeles. My parents were not on board with that, and so I had to get a lot of different jobs. One of them was working for a man in Hollywood who had a weekly poker game.

Man Parents Game Los Angeles Weekly

I was already committed to a play back in New York about Hans Christian Andersen, where Colleen Dewhurst was going to play my mother. I was excited about that, and I got this script called 'Back to the Future,' and I thumbed through it. Didn't pay a hell of a lot of attention.

Christopher Lloyd

Mother Future New York Hell Play

What drew me into making movies is trying to make characters that step off the screen.

Step Me Trying Movies Screen Off

From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.

Day Monday Start Holiday Summer May

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