Dorothy Dandridge Quotes

Somehow, people just like to look at me.

Dorothy Dandridge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 9, 1922 - September 8, 1965

Topics

PeopleMeLookJustLikeSomehow

When people love you for your cultural contributions, geographical boundaries become nonexistent.

Adnan Sami

LovePeopleYouBecomeBoundaries

More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.

Jim Beaver

UnderstandDeadMoreStartedShow

Whom the gods love dies young.

Menander

LoveYoungGodsWhomDies

I don't know if there is redemption for people like Charlie Rose or Garrison Keillor. An apology helps, but what really matter are deeds.

Ann Wilson

PeopleRoseKnowApologyMatter

My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming.

Anna Kendrick

FamilyMeUnderstandingPhoneBecome

Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.

Roberta Flack

BookColorSeriousJazzRealCanvas

Most theatre is still really bad. It has to appeal to people who do jobs and have lives. Theatre about theatre is the most awful, terminal nonsense.

Mike Bartlett

PeopleTheatreBadNonsenseStill

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Michel de Montaigne

ManSufferingWhoHeFears

Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person.

Lucy Liu

BusinessPeopleYouPersonSometimes

I made a decision as a child that I would never let anyone tell me that I was invalid or inauthentic, or that my experiences were.

Josh Tillman

DecisionChildMeNeverTellMade

Racism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes it's overt. Sometimes it's violent, and sometimes it's harmless, but it's definitely here. It's something that I think we're all guilty of, and we just have to make sure that we deal with our own personal racism in the right way.

Jordan Peele

RacismThinkGuiltySometimesWay

It is quite annoying that we have to change the sound we invented just to avoid sounding like people who simply copy us, but... it is flattering and of course challenging.

Jonathan Davis

ChangePeopleCopySoundAnnoying

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