Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Quotes

My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures.

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 15, 1986

Topics

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I used all that doubt as fuel for my own music, fuel for my drive to succeed.

Jody Watley

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In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!

John Badham

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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

John Cleese

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We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

Andy Rooney

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I got into television because I hated it so. I thought, there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

Jeff Greenfield

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Literally, over a weekend, Friday to Monday, I went from a C.I.A. officer to changing diapers and putting the kid in a Bjorn and going to the playground and hanging out with all the nannies. I was the only dad - everyone kind of gave me strange looks because of our sexist society.

Tom King

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I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

Tom Perrotta

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There's that initial reticence for some athletes to take you seriously.

Lisa Guerrero

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All three of my kids play soccer. Each one of them started from the time they were about 5 or 6, and we just love it.

Lisa Vidal

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I should prefer to die laughing, and, on more than one occasion, thought I might.

Joseph Epstein

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If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore.

Shia LaBeouf

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'Battleship' is not a film that Francois Truffaut would have made. Nor would any of those other namby-pamby European directors. Nope, this picture eschews that Continental obsession with small stories, set in quaint towns filled with pockmarked folk doing their banal things.

Seth Shostak

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