Mahershala Ali Quotes

When you have these surprise breakout films that do well, that have good performances in them, it puts a lot of pressure on the Academy to recognize those projects, so it's more of a conversation about what is greenlit.

Mahershala Ali

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 16, 1974

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I'm part Jewish and part Christian, but I'm mostly Jewish.

Joey King

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I'm not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody's throat: 'You're going to do it my way.' I'd rather show by example and live my life and have people say, 'You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He's got peace and joy, and he seems content.'

Joel Osteen

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To win you have to risk loss.

Jean-Claude Killy

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I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.

Jeff Foxworthy

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So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.

John Ratzenberger

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I don't have any regrets, because I think life is like a creek. It kind of meanders along, and you instinctively do the things you are meant to do. There's no great plan except doing really good scripts, meeting great filmmakers. And I have to have something that I can bring to the role.

Sissy Spacek

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I'm a very commonsense guy - I just look at the viability of the idea, if I feel the team has the ability to execute the idea. I also look at the investment syndicate, the size of the market, and then a lot of gut married on top of it.

Troy Carter

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And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

Russell Banks

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Playing albums in sequence can be awesome, or it can be very limiting.

Mike McCready

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You get weird, funny requests on Twitter. With our fan club, I was seeing a lot of fans were having some issue with the way the fan club tickets were being handled in one of the shows. So I was able to correspond with that fan, and be like, 'Listen, we'll be on it.'

Luke Bryan

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

Lord Byron

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I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

Dennis Quaid

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