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Cuba Gooding, Jr. Quotes

The truth is, you don't ever decide on a role, not when you first begin. You audition for the role, and you're lucky to get it.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Truth Truth Is You Lucky First Role

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.

Great Learn Someone You Know Actor

The best cartoons have no words at all - just the image pops out.

Best Words Image Out Just Cartoons

Thinking about your training should put a smile on your face. As cliche as it sounds, you are worth all the time and energy you've put in. Unleash your emotions with a cheer, or even a signature roar, after a tough workout.

Smile Time Training Energy Face You

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience.

Good Father Experience Think Taken

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

Restaurant Living Leaving Hong Kong

Did you know there's a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy - running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything - is the same as wasting your time? It's frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

Time Day Effort Fruit Energy Busy

The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.

Culture People Modern Something Many

I've always liked the idea of being a father. And I've always romanticised it, because I lost my father when I was young. In a way, all of the complications that come with my career are about that.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Father Career Lost Young Way Always

From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It's been quite an evolution.

Christina Milian

Mom Singing Fashion Acting Evolution

My family in St. Louis brings me to my roots.

Family Me Roots St. Louis Louis

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

Ego Create More Precious Comedians

Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, 'The 5th Wave,' explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if they're out there, we better hope they never find us.

Hope Believe End Better Short Wave

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