Lennie James Quotes

I was focused on either being a social worker or physiotherapist. That was the direction I was going until I met a girl who wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to be close to the girl, so I followed her into an audition.

Lennie James

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 11, 1965

Topics

GirlDirectionFocusedHerGoing

I'm a very lucky girl who gets to act for a living! So why sit around griping and grousing about what's not there.

Melissa Leo

GirlLivingWhyLuckyActSit

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

Anna Benson

WorkMarriageEffortPeopleEgoYou

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

SucceedHonorFraudFailRather

So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar in D.C., it was Mr. Henry's of Georgetown.

Tori Amos

FatherJobMeGayFirstBar

For a long time, sure, I was letting the pressure of being Rodney King get to me. It ain't easy. Even now, I walk into a place wondering, 'What people are thinking? Do they know who I am? What do they think about what happened? Do they blame me for the all those people who died?'

Rodney King

TimeWalkI AmKingPeopleBlame

People know what they see but they don't know what's happening inside. If you want to know who you are and how you feel about yourself, take a look at your environment.

Mary J. Blige

YourselfPeopleFeelYouLookKnow

Every day it seems like something happens to assure me I'm in the right place, and that doing anything else would be wrong. I feel so incredibly blessed.

Lucas Grabeel

DayMeBlessedFeelDoingEvery Day

Of course I like to be tan, but now I try to avoid it. I don't mind having a little glow, but now when I go to the beach, I put SPF 50 everywhere - either Avene or La Roche-Posay Anthelios. I have freckles, so as long as my little freckles come out, I'm happy.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

BeachHappyMindGlowLongGo

If someone's OK with being the 'transgender girl,' that's fine, but that's not me.

Jazz Jennings

GirlMeSomeoneTransgenderFineOK

I'm just happy to be part of the family, the decathlon family.

Ashton Eaton

FamilyHappyJustPartDecathlon

I have always believed in cordial relationship with political parties and their leaders.

Sharad Pawar

RelationshipPoliticalAlwaysLeaders

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Thomas Lynch

HistoryPoetryLanguageWayHobbies

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