Lakeith Stanfield Quotes

I grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides, but I sort of put up these reflectors to most of the negative things that have occurred in my life. I don't carry around much baggage.

Lakeith Stanfield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 12, 1991

Topics

LifeFamilyNegativeMy LifePoor

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

Maurice Baring

YourselfFunEnjoyYouPlaySerious

I kind of write in my own little world.

Michael Che

WorldKindMy OwnWriteLittleOwn

Chess is a thinking person's game. But you don't have to be smart to know what's funny! Lots of check, mate!

Steve Breen

FunnySmartGameThinkingYouChess

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

Skeet Ulrich

TimeSickDieEmotionalMinuteGot

My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics.

Traian Basescu

PoliticsDoneProtectMoveWould-Be

To work is to feel alive.

Tony Bennett

WorkFeelAlive

My son, before he went to school, he'd eat pretty much everything. Then as soon as he went to school, he got some peer pressure, and other kids would say, 'Oh, you're gonna eat that. That's horrible. That's disgusting.'

Tom Colicchio

SonSchoolPressureYouSayEat

My dad... was in the military, a drill sergeant, when he was a preacher. You know how some Christians really get into church and become very radical? Imagine him as a radical and a drill sergeant. It was intense.

Ro James

ChurchYouKnowBecomeMilitaryHim

The thing about rock & roll, and the black leather biker jacket - it automatically creates an idea about what that person might be about, about their musical taste or their attitude.

Rob Halford

AttitudeBlackPersonRockJacket

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

Brenda Lee

GirlAmericaNutsLikeEveryAbout

If you can write someone off as a bad person, then it's easier, but when someone is also great and noble and generous and kind and funny and contradictory, it gets harder.

Boy George

FunnyGreatSomeoneYouBadPerson

I do - very specifically, I remember Bessie Smith; I used to collect 78 records that I would buy from the St Vincent de Paul store at five cents apiece, and I did this indiscriminately. I would just take whatever was there. And I listened to Patti Page and Walter Huston, 'September Song.'

August Wilson

SongRememberPageWhateverBuy

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