Billy Porter Quotes

When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand's Broadway album - and they laughed me out of the room. Broadway wasn't cool. But artists like Michael Buble and Josh Groban have brought the classic genre back to the forefront, so I'm trying to find my way inside that market.

Billy Porter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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There was a time when I was willing to marry any cute boy that looked at me.

Anna Faris

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You've just got to be comfortable with yourself.

Amanda Seyfried

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I was so terrified that the business would not do well and that there would be no way that I would be in a position to pay my dad back this $80,000. At Stars, as a line cook, I think that I was making $10 or $12 an hour. So $80,000 - to have to pay that back was incomprehensible.

Steve Ells

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I want to challenge the presumption that the world cannot know it is the world unless there is an alternative to the world.

Stanley Hauerwas

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I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

Sting

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I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy.

Rita Moreno

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I love TV in a way that I don't love any other medium.

Joss Whedon

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I didn't really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

Brenda Lee

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Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?

Art Buchwald

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I've won some awards. 'Time' magazine designated me as one of the environmental heroes of the 20th century. Oh, and I've got some honorary citizenships, like from the Conch Republic of the Florida Keys. But the one thing I am proud of is I didn't get the Chevron environmental award. Never did get that one.

Paul Watson

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From their '61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their wake the songbook and sound for their career. It's the musical trough from which nearly every musician drinks.

Shawn Amos

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I've never been called the black sheep. Everybody in my family had something weird about them, like, 'What's wrong with you?!' We all were black sheep.

Thundercat

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