Lance Gross Quotes

I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.

Lance Gross

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 8, 1981

Topics

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I can tell you, I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.

Jerry Jones

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I always liked jazz. And my people liked the old blues, race records and the doo-wop and all that.

Amiri Baraka

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As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.

Steve Israel

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People don't mind insulting the tall. We're supposed to be fine with being awkward and skinny. I'm very easy to psychoanalyse. I was a gangly, awkward teenager who could make people laugh and thought that was a way to be socially more comfortable.

Stephen Merchant

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I feel like there's so many places to shop today that just feel like an Excel spreadsheet put between four walls.

Sophia Amoruso

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The deeper changes wrought by the end of a particular outlaw culture: something will come of that ... and it won't be what we expect.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

Simon McBurney

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One of the most important branches of the Egyptian economy is tourism. No bikinis, no tourism. So they have to decide what to do.

Shimon Peres

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Having plastic surgery is pathetic. You don't look any younger; you look well for a bit until it starts going again, but it takes all the character out.

Judy Parfitt

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My wife hates the beard. When we dated, I would grow it out during duck season. She said she could handle anything for three months - but now I have it all the time.

Jase Robertson

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Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really fit into Hollywood's business model any longer. Even if 'Chef' is successful, it will be successful in the context of what it is. There's a limited upside to a film that's so small, but there's also limited exposure for the people who backed me.

Jon Favreau

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As long as I can play at a certain level, that's what I'll do.

Dimitri Payet

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