Lee Daniels Quotes

My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at 8, you know, with a bunch of kids on my steps - on the stoops - and knowing that I wanted to direct them saying the lines. I don't really know how to articulate that 'cause there wasn't someone to show me.

Lee Daniels

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 24, 1959

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ExperienceMeSayingReadingSomeone

Most times, life or death is the highest stake a person can play for.

Jim Starlin

LifeDeathPersonPlayMostHighest

I think you should experience life before you can recreate it.

John Ritter

LifeExperienceThinkYouI Think

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

Michel Foucault

LovePowerBehaviorDesireEveryday

Elegance is refusal.

Coco Chanel

EleganceRefusal

As long as my mouth, hands, and brain still work, I'll be out there doing it. I'm going to keep going 'til I'm not there anymore. This is what's keeping me alive and feeling young and inspired.

Clarence Clemons

WorkKeep GoingMeBrainDoingLong

Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.

Ava DuVernay

LifeWorkReflectionValuePeople

Yes, I am very unhappy, extremely anguished at human rights violations against Kashmiris in India or against Rohingyas in Burma or, for that matter, Christians in Orissa; but obviously, I am going to be more concerned of violations taking place in my own house because I am closer to the people who I live with. I have more passion for them.

Asma Jahangir

LivePassionI AmPeopleUnhappy

I like people that are real people. Real people are broad; they make mistakes.

Sherilyn Fenn

MistakesPeopleRealReal People

The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.

Mario Batali

SmartPotentialParadiseCreateRaw

I've always had not just an affection but a real love for the theater family in New York, and I really feel it is a family. I'm so touched by the generosity of everyone there.

Lindsay Duncan

FamilyLoveNew YorkGenerosityFeel

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

Juliette Binoche

HabitDeathMeJustSynonym

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

Jamie Foxx

GreatWinThinkingNeverProject

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