Mahershala Ali Quotes

I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

Mahershala Ali

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CreativeWritingActingTryOutGet

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

John Burnham Schwartz

ActUsefulOne ThingThingCertain

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

John Hawkes

FearMyselfMeComplacencyFeelNow

You never know when someone is videotaping you or trying to capture your image. I see how it makes some people crazy.

Megan Fox

PeopleCrazySomeoneTryingYou

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

Robert Southey

GoodGodManYoungYoung ManVain

I grew up as an only child. My parents weren't great conversationalists. We had a quiet house. I'm not very verbal.

Matthew Morrison

GreatChildParentsHouseQuietUp

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

Jean de la Bruyere

CharacterPeopleCareYouKnowHigh

I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.

Jason Reitman

SimpleBelieveYouBloodDirector

There is nothing false or arrogant about German pride in German technical and business skills.

Douglas Hurd

BusinessPrideSkillsNothingFalse

I'd like to break some new ground, maybe in TV presenting, rather than just be an actress.

Cherie Lunghi

NewGroundBreakActressJustLike

The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

Arthur Miller

JobHumilityFaceI CanAskAnswers

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

GoBuyConcertsReally

I used to watch, on television on Sunday nights, they had the Disney hour then and the castle coming up and 'When you wish upon a star... ' That was my very first Disney memory.

Phyllis Smith

MemoryWishYouTelevisionSunday

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