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Cuba Gooding, Jr. Quotes

I don't choose parts. I choose filmmakers. I'm done trying to make a statement with a character. What happens is, I craft a performance from the beginning to the end of the character. Then I release it to the director, and he interprets what I gave him.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: January 2, 1968

Topics

Character Beginning Performance End

When I speak to students and they ask how much money you can make in art, as if that is a reason to persue it, I tell them to do something else.

Art Money Speak You Ask Reason

What makes you a SEAL, what makes you a SEAL is being a good tactician on the battle field, understanding how to shoot, move, and communicate, knowing small unit maneuver warfare. That's what makes a good SEAL, and so that is the course of instruction that I taught, was getting SEAL platoons ready for deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Good Small Battle Understanding You

I went through my rebellious phase, not in my teenage years, but around age 12. The year I decided I didn't want to do entertainment anymore, I was discovered. And I couldn't back down from that.

Age Year Back Down Want Years

In terms of segments, I think we've done 1,200.

Think Done I Think Terms Segments

I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Beauty Speak Him Wonderful Would He

I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy. It was very exciting. It's interesting living life as a civilian, then on Friday night you're parachuting into a foreign country.

Life Night Friday Interesting You

That is not something I embrace. I think there are real distinctions between the Koch brothers and us.

Think Embrace Real Something Us

It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.

Balance Reading Extraordinary Sheets

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

Father Animal Choices Survival Bad

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

People Cry Hand Never Complain Out

My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.

Better Design I Can Explain Been

At the top of my career, I wasn't at the top of my game.

Game Career Top

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