Mahershala Ali Quotes

Kids feel like they have to puff up or shrink. These reclusive qualities begin to develop because you feel that who you are is going to either be accepted or rejected by your family and friends.

Mahershala Ali

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyFeelFriendsYouBeginUp

I was my parent's first child, Joanna Catherine Going, named for my great-great grandmother Catherine, and my father's maternal aunt Johanna Burke, and bearing the initials of my father's father, John Christopher, who passed away just months before I was born.

Joanna Going

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I've always gotten along best with artists.

Jerry Hall

BestAlwaysAlongArtistsGotten

If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask isn't it? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I AmThinkLovedEnoughYouKnow

I never really did a western western.

John Malkovich

NeverDidReallyWestern

I have felt some twinges recently, about parts I wanted to play that I may be getting too old and fat to do. 'Hamlet,' for example - maybe that's gone. I would love to play Richard II.

Matthew Macfadyen

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The Pakistani writers are addressing change and what's happening today in the world. There is something completely contemporary in this writing.

Sonny Mehta

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I've got three kids, and my three kids make me feel like I'm getting older every day.

Rob Liefeld

DayGetting OlderMeFeelEvery Day

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.

Rosie Perez

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In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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I thought it would be very nice to become Picasso or Rembrandt, or a van Gogh.

Dick Bruna

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Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys.

Colm Meaney

CharacterYouBadKnowActorAlways

People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term.

Clayton M. Christensen

FamilyPeopleLongPayLong Term

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