Billy Porter Quotes

Seeing Jennifer Holliday from 'Dreamgirls' perform on the Tony Awards telecast and later discovering Barbra Streisand by listening to her albums at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh really changed everything for me.

Billy Porter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 21, 1969

Topics

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When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Jimmy Breslin

PersonalityYouPlaceStopFirst

As an older lineman, if you start to sit around, you get stiff. You get tired. Things start to set in.

Andrew Whitworth

TiredStartYouThingsSitGet

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

John Ray

SmileBeautyPowerSword

Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?

Stanley Hauerwas

LoveYourselfWhyAskHimEveryone

I'm never happy with my performances. I always want to prove more and more things.

Son Heung-min

HappyWantProveMoreNeverAlways

I'm not a big guy anyway. I'm only, what, 150 pounds? I was 190 for 'Batman,' 179 for 'Warrior.' Films make you look big.

Tom Hardy

WarriorYouLookBigGuyBatman

I'm a traveler and a vagabond and an observer, and the songs come through that. And that's just the way it's going to be.

Mary Gauthier

WayThroughGoingComeJustSongs

It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them.

Cliff Shaw

ProblemsSolutionMustAbleThem

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Arnold Palmer

WisdomExperienceGiftNaturalLike

Nobody likes to throw stuff away. It's just antithetical to our sense of being a person. But we're all habituated to that way of living today.

Peter Senge

TodayPersonNobodyLivingWayJust

I'm not the first person to say this, but communication at 'SNL' - I don't want to say it's not good, but unless you ask questions, you will not know what's going on.

Pete Davidson

GoodCommunicationQuestionsYouSay

I never thought we had a chance of impacting anything. I am just starting to realize that we can change things - not just VICE, but all of us. In fact, we have to.

Shane Smith

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