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Stephen Hopkins Quotes

When I was thinking of casting this, I thought, What roles would Sellers be playing now?

Stephen Hopkins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: jamaican
Birth: 1958

Topics

Thinking Thought Now Playing Would

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

John C. Maxwell

Life Success Failure Challenges Our

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

Football Me Game Way Never Field

The thing that I love about Rick Grimes is that he pulls himself off the canvas even when he has been pummeled to the ground so many times. And either he gets up by himself - he drags himself up - or he is helped up by loved ones around him.

Love Loved Him Canvas Ground Up

It's sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black hole or an absence.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Father Black Better Rebel Sometimes

Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.

Life Art Day Yourself My Life Down

I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.

Soul Win More Divine Us Found

I am not comparing myself to great artists, but when you see conceptual artists at work, on some level it's reassuring to know they can paint figuratively. Likewise, when you listen to the '50s jazz people who do these vast solos, you buy into it more if they open by playing a tune.

Work Great Myself I Am People You

I think there's a tendency with actor/directors to imagine themselves playing every part and trying to get people to follow their rhythm, their tempo, their pace. I've learned now to just love being at the center of this creative swirl.

Love Creative People Think Trying

I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.

Good Myself Job Song Thought Drunk

History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes we're not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.

Live Memories History Moment Past

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Time People Reputation Expectations

I'm blessed, and... all the time, I sit and think, 'Wow.'

Time Blessed Think Sit Wow

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