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Louis Gossett, Jr. Quotes

You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: May 27, 1936

Topics

People You Know Never Arts Well

We all need to decide what makes it safe and secure on the Internet. It can't be anybody else's decision. We have to have a voice.

Decision Voice Internet Need Decide

My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.

Experience Acting Go Shy Robot Box

I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes.

Family People Solitude Privacy More

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Robert H. Schuller

People Succeed Impossible Face Know

I have fun out there on the court, smiling, laughing, trying to have good demeanor.

Good Fun Have Fun Smiling Trying

It's the mix of the trivial and the great events that make up history. It's the low things about high people that make it fascinating, and that's why it would be a shame to exclude the trivial things. That mixing up is not just at the heart of history. It's at the heart of how to live a great life.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Life Live Heart History Great Why

When I was in the 9th grade, on Halloween night, when you're supposed to go and out and burn your city, my mom made me go to 'Cirque du Soleil.' I was kicking and screaming. This girl came out onstage, and I was instantly mesmerized. I dropped out of school and became obsessed with her. I saw the show, like, 70 times.

Girl School City Me Mom Night

Journalists should have been the first to tell people what Obamacare would mean to them. They are now the last to figure all of this out.

People Now Mean First Out Tell

Being slightly paranoid is like being slightly pregnant - it tends to get worse.

Paranoid Being Get Worse Like Tends

I would never know how to sell myself as a sex symbol. That's not how I'm programmed.

Myself Sex Know Never Sell Would

Only in acting I'm going by Joanna JoJo Levesque. In singing, just JoJo. But the reason we wanted to go with JoJo Levesque is most people know me as JoJo. People that are familiar with me would still be like, 'Oh, that's JoJo.'

People Me Singing Acting Go Know

I made a promise to be as creative as I could, even outside of music.

Music Creative Outside Promise Made

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