Gregory Hines Quotes

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.

Gregory Hines

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 14, 1946 - August 9, 2003

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Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

Jesse Schell

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I admire honesty more than any other trait.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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President Kennedy's election was such an enlargement. It expanded religious freedom to include the highest office in the land. President Kennedy's administration was such an enlargement. It advanced the day when the bars of intolerance against all minority groups will be lifted, not only for the presidency, but for all aspects of our national life.

Robert Kennedy

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It's so important to recognize that there have been fabulous queer artists all throughout our history.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

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I'm kind of private and I keep things inside a lot, but it's been so wonderful to realize that people care about you in a very deep way and that there is some bond between an actor and his audience. I don't even know how to describe that feeling.

Michael J. Fox

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My mom's best friend growing up was diagnosed with AIDS, and he basically raised me when my mom was launching her business. Although I didn't understand at the time what HIV or AIDS was, I knew that's what he passed away from.

Solange Knowles

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We're not gonna misread our mandate.

Mitch McConnell

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I think it's time... that we reform Congress to the point where all public assistance comes in one single committee. One area where all public assistance can be located, and it will be easy to see all the duplications, all the waste, so much easier to see areas where fraud is running rampant.

Louie Gohmert

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The Trail of Tears has a great deal of meaning for every person of American Indian ancestry, whether they are Cherokee or not. For me, it has always stood for what is best and worst about the history of the United States.

Joseph Bruchac

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The truth is, my folk-lore friends and my Saturday Reviewer differ with me on the important problem of the origin of folk-tales. They think that a tale probably originated where it was found.

Joseph Jacobs

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The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

Brendon Burchard

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I went to LaGuardia, so I'm very close to the reality that lot of actors work rarely.

Timothee Chalamet

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