Michael Jai White Quotes

There's all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that's wonderful, but that doesn't represent everyone. There's a Russell Crowe... well, you know, there's a black Russell Crowe.

Michael Jai White

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 10, 1967

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In baseball, you're always moving people around.

Joe Torre

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In Hong Kong, the directors are the idea men.

Andrew Lau

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If you start to just aim for what the audience wants to hear, you're already hamstrung because you don't have any freedom.

Andy Richter

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I'm serious; I don't, I don't rap. I flow; I'm a flow-er. You've got rappers, you got MCs, and then you got flow-ers, I'm a flow-er.

Method Man

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My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of Indian sport - inadequate representation, lack of satisfactory results etc. We thought we should do something about it.

Amit Bhatia

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I've always been interested in character-driven pieces, and my approach to directing is through acting.

Steve Buscemi

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I am very lucky in that if I don't get a job for six months or a year, I've got other things I can do and am fit enough to still do physical work.

Rory McCann

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I grew up in Iowa, so we had Cheap Trick come through a lot, but some of the other acts were a little harder to find.

Ron Livingston

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Humor is a blessing to me. My earliest recollections are of looking at something and seeing the lighter side. But it's always spontaneous. I couldn't write a comedy skit for someone else.

Roy Clark

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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Miguel de Cervantes

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I think TV, films, and the stage inform each other. It's good to go back and forth.

Jon Tenney

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How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?

Chris Robinson

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