Cuba Gooding, Jr. Quotes

Our job as artists is to reflect the ills of society sometimes and to find a truth in that, and I think you can't start the healing process until you recognize the truth and all of its ugly warts and all.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Every character I play has to be the hero of his own story, the way we're all heroes of our own lives.

Jesse Eisenberg

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I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person.

John Carmack

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Most young people want to get out of the environment they grow up in, move on, and do something. The big question for everyone is what they want to do and how. It's something that most young people feel.

Robert Stigwood

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It's terrible when I go somewhere, and I'm not recognized.

John J. McLaughlin

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I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are.

Stephen Rea

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That's nice, to be compared to Joanna Lumley. She played my mother once in 'Ella Enchanted.' I was one of the ugly sisters, and she was the stepmother, so that was great. I'll take that comparison, thank you.

Lucy Punch

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I sent some scenes from 'Life on Mars'... and then I didn't hear anything for about 48 hours, and I was sure that I wouldn't get this. Then I got a phone call saying, 'They want you to take the role of Jim Shannon on 'Terra Nova,' and would I be interested!

Jason O'Mara

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I'm constantly exposing myself to art and that inspires me.

Dominic Monaghan

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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Denis Waitley

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Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

Comte de Lautreamont

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I'm the first South Asian woman to be elected to the House of Representatives.

Pramila Jayapal

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I've actually started to drive slower. I never want to see a news headline that reads, 'The Chinese Guy from 'Fast & Furious' Pulled Over for a Speeding Ticket.'

Sung Kang

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