Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Quotes

I grew up watching 'Rambo' and 'Rocky' and all of those movies, so you have a surreal moment, even as an actor, when you're in front of these guys, whether it's DeNiro or Stallone. You have a moment like, 'Geez, that's Sylvester Stallone,' and then you have to snap out of it and get back in the pocket of the character.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 22, 1967

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Millions and millions of people are proud gun owners, and they do it responsibly and by the law.

Joe Manchin

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I like a character that goes on a journey. A character that has had it all, lost it all, and is trying to get back to just being OK. I love the agony of defeat just as much as I love the thrill of victory.

Jessie Pavelka

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It's the nature of an actor to have to use sense memory.

Anjelica Huston

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I was the youngest of about nine boys in the neighborhood, and we played ball all the time, and I looked up to them, and they let me play around with them, and we just had a good time.

Jeff Sessions

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Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

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I love working with Prada, I would do it all the time if I could. Working with them is like working on a film: it is very collaborative.

Mia Goth

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No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

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We must end illegal immigration, period.

Robert Blaha

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There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your head immobilized by pillows and straps. The scanner makes a dreadful din, which headphones barely muffle.

Robin Marantz Henig

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I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

Chris Jericho

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This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

Brian Ferneyhough

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We're all caught up in circumstances, and we're all good and evil. When you're really hungry, for instance, you'll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing - well, maybe that's too strong - but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

Anthony Hopkins

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