Cress Williams Quotes

A friend of mine kind of revealed to me that idea that there has been countless Supermen and Batman. But I'm the first person to play Black Lightning. It's exciting to originate a character.

Cress Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: July 26, 1970

Topics

FriendCharacterMeBlackPlayKind

The camera lens or the television camera is still just a proscenium arch. And as a great old character actor once said to me, wherever you're acting, you reach up and take hold of the proscenium arch, and you pull it down around your shoulders.

Robert Preston

CharacterGreatMeCameraActing

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

Jeb Bush

BeautyStarsSpaceNightWonderUp

In New York, I'm around a lot of the reasons I started playing music in the first place. I live right behind Matt Umanov Guitars. I live on the street that Suze Rotolo and Bob Dylan were walking down on the album cover. I recognize the history.

Steve Earle

LiveMusicHistoryNew YorkWalking

My family is very close. I can't say that about many people I meet in Hollywood.

Tom Verica

FamilyPeopleSayMeetHollywood

The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.

Tom Waits

FameBeingOnlyWorseThanThing

Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.

Robert Downey, Jr.

YouSometimesNestOutJustGotta

It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.

Robin Trower

ImpossibleFeelingPlayCryRun

When you work with the same people for 10 years, they become family. Now when I see them - it might not be for nine months - but when I see them, it's great.

Molly Sims

WorkFamilyGreatPeopleYouBecome

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

Don Sutton

LuckYourFannyBy-ProductBusting

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

David Tang

YouGreaterImpulsiveOnlyThanFry

I want the white people to understand my people.

Chief Joseph

PeopleWhiteWantUnderstand

Yeah, I mean I've definitely had a bunch of action scripts sent to me, but again I'm a stickler for directors. If it's like an action flick with a great director then it's like 'Oh let's look at this thing,' but if it's just like a shoot-em'-up with a first time director. I don't know if that's the trajectory I want to take with what I'm doing.

Armie Hammer

GreatTimeMeActionDoingLook

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