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Paul Mooney Quotes

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: August 4, 1941

Topics

Black Hollywood Mean Kinds Like Too

I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.

Matthew Macfadyen

Loved Actor Being Whole Just Idea

All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs.

People Information Young Young People

I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.

John Shelby Spong

Nature Think Universe Boots Person

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.

Learning Better Getting Better Go Am

Now I'm a painter. That was another opportunity I was able to pursue, I've been painting all my life, now it's become a second career because of my success in the movies.

Life Success Opportunity Painting

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

Donald Ray Pollock

School Go Quit Fifty Graduate School

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

Romantic Me Crazy Evil Say Monster

It is important to be financially savvy when you turn producer. As a director, you just need to have a good script in hand.

Good You Important Hand Need Turn

I sometimes think less is more. If you cut yourself in too many places, it is hard to execute.

Yourself Think You Sometimes Places

I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.

People Think Stand You Heritage Now

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Profit Driven Desires Period

Only blacks can play the race card, apparently; only they think in racial terms, at least to hear white America tell it.

Think America White Play Race Tell

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