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Hill Harper Quotes

When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that's fine, but we don't need to see you do a 'Schindler's List,' where there's no jokes or music or comedic through-line.

Hill Harper

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: May 17, 1966

Topics

Music American Laugh You Hollywood

I don't see anyone avoiding the Stones because DJs make jokes about them being a part of the Geritol set. All it does is make the DJs look stupid.

Joe Perry

Stupid Look See Jokes Being Stones

Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.

Jennifer Hudson

Blessings Doubt You Stop Want Where

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

Anna Freud

Beautiful Present Sometimes Something

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

Michael Haneke

Change Perspective Someone Laziness

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

Mercedes McCambridge

Work Progress I Am Play Nothing Try

When I came to WWE back in the day, I'd been working seven-and-a-half years, and I was very frustrated. I started getting some momentum, and my work was very vicious, and it was very believable.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Work Day Momentum Back Years Been

I think any stereotyping is too much.

Tommy Lee Jones

Think Too Much I Think Much Too Any

Buy the best you can find or afford and don't over manipulate it. If I cook a scallop, the best praise you can give me is that it tastes like a scallop.

Tom Colicchio

Best Me You Find Praise Over

There is a scene in Richard Attenborough's biopic where Gandhi argues with his wife because she refuses to clean their latrine. She says it is the work of untouchables; he tells her there is no such thing. Gandhi's tactics of encouraging brotherly love across caste boundaries and urging Indians to clean their own latrines had failed miserably.

Rose George

Work Love Wife Clean She Boundaries

I remember telling the 'Tangled' crew about grimace moments: how when you watch a movie that you worked on and you think, 'Ah, I wish we could have done that scene better,' or, 'I wish that we'd had the time or the money to fix that particular story problem.'

Roy Conli

Time Money Story Think Better Wish

I'm not sure I would want to be a filmmaker, because I've seen how many people they have to go through in order to create their own movie. It doesn't seem like something I can imagine putting myself through.

Lucas Hedges

Myself People I Can Create Go Want

We do not need Departments of Commerce, Labor, and Education; we need a single Department of Skills that will promote an integrated approach to global competitiveness.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Education Labor Skills Will Need