Boris Kodjoe Quotes

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

Boris Kodjoe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: austrian
  • Birth: March 8, 1973

Topics

SunsetPeopleMeLookingPlaySugar

If people want to see you, they'll find you. If they don't see you on TV, they'll find you on the Internet.

Jimmy Fallon

PeopleInternetYouFindWantSee

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

Jerry Reed

MusicAngryListeningYouPowerful

Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have celebrated widely. But we've fallen behind on savoring the formal layer of our language.

John McWhorter

CreativePoetryLanguageCountryRap

You never choose the way that you're raised, it's just the way that you were raised, but you do get to a certain age where you're in a position to question the expectations of you and the way that you've been formed by your surroundings.

Mia Wasikowska

AgeExpectationsYouChooseWayGet

Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.

Tommy Caldwell

ClimbFeetStandYouLookFind

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

Claire Tomalin

WritingBiographyFiveLikeDickens

When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter attempt that we are most successful.

Pierre Nicole

HideOthersSeekSuccessfulMost

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

WinterSpringBehindFar

I've always been the girl the kids in school would be like, 'What is she wearing?' Then eventually some trends would stick.

Shenae Grimes

GirlSchoolTrendsSheAlwaysStick

Once typecast as the indispensable altarpiece of a well-appointed living room, TVs have infected every human environment. The average American household has more television sets than people.

Seth Shostak

PeopleAmericanEnvironmentLiving

Historical experience shows that a crisis causes either a recovery or catastrophic consequences.

Sergei Lavrov

ExperienceConsequencesCrisisEither

With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.

Nikki Reed

LoveMaturityLearnYouWantHard

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