Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

Sarah Silverman

I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

Sara Blakely

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

Walter Annenberg

Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

Wentworth Miller

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.

Salmon P. Chase

I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.

Wesley Snipes

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Jennifer Fallon

I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Mark Krikorian

I think it's going to implode. They're trying to do too much.

Steve Foley

It hurts, man. We've done everything we can do to this point; trying not to aggravate it.

Estelle

I think the one group I am trying to appeal to is the world. That would be big enough.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

John Daly

I was just trying to get it on the green.

Rob Zombie

Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor.

Ryan Kwanten

I'm not one of those actors who gets physically fit for a role and then loses it all again.

Russell Johnson

Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.

Russell Crowe

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

Romola Garai

I've worked with actors who tell everyone what to do in the scene - that makes me go pretty atomic.

William Mapother

Every actor has their own method, so I'm not suggesting what works for me will work for everybody else.

William Shatner

You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.

Sarah Bernhardt

Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts.

Vera Farmiga

Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.