Famous quotes by Famous people

” Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word. “

” Coming from New York, you’re kind of indoctrinated with anti-L.A. sentiment, but California is just a really dope state. “

” It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life. “

” You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can’t make any promises you don’t intend to keep. “

” As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it’s really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with. “

” I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family. “

” We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life. “

” We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don’t see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don’t believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a great teacher. “

” If someone says, ‘Democracy is a sham, those people don’t speak for me… the system’s rigged,’ you say, ‘Vote.’ Someone says, ‘I was making a statement by not voting,’ and then you say, ‘Well I can’t hear it. “

” The interesting thing about white power and the desperate white knuckling grip on this thing call whiteness, which is a myth in itself, is that black folks… we’re not asking you to invent new laws for us. We’re asking you to include us in the laws that are already on the books. “