Quotes by Lee Daniels - Page 3

As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace. So, it's about adjusting to the pace. It's not meant for everybody.
Lee Daniels / Film Actor
Different
Directors
Pace
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I don't think anyone likes anything of mine. At the end of the day, I love it, but just because I love it... I happen to love broccoli, not a lot of people like broccoli. I always question if somebody else is going to love my films.
Lee Daniels / Film Actor
People
The End Of The Day
Thinking
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When you're paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like putting on theater. Nicole Kidman is at craft services, and John Cusack is moving furniture; there are no egos. The only ego is the story.
Lee Daniels / Film Actor
Furniture
Moving
Nicole
Theater
Craft
Egos
Homes
John
Nicole Kidman
Paying
Putting
Services
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I moved on to a nursing agency as a receptionist just to get a job, and ended up managing it, which led to me opening my own - say your mom is sick and needs someone to help her, then you call something like what I had: a home health agency.
Lee Daniels / Film Actor
Agency
Moved On
Nursing
Opening
Sick
Ended
Led
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I went from off-off Broadway. I would direct plays in Baldwin Hills. Almost Tyler Perry-like, really trying to express myself in that and not really knowing how to, knowing acting in story, but not really knowing how to technically hold a camera.
Lee Daniels / Film Actor
Broadway
Hills
Technically
Tyler
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I embrace the criticism, because ultimately (it means) the masses have seen it [my movie]. I embrace it for my father's story, for my mother's story, for my auntie, for my grandmother, who all got their teeth knocked out so I could be [where I am].
Lee Daniels / Film Actor
Father
Mean
Mother
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I think people in the future will come up to me and say, "Everything that you are and everything that you have is because of that butler [film]." Of course, that's Oprah's line from the movie, but I think it will resonate with my legacy with the movie.
Lee Daniels / Film Actor
Legacy
People
Thinking
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If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me.
Lee Daniels / Film Actor
Cinema
Easier
Independent
Life Time Money
Ball
Becomes
Beginning
Spend
Monster
Producer
Planting
Seed
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I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.
Lee Daniels / Film Actor
Prepared
Life Believe Your
Accomplishments
Next Thing
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My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at 8, you know, with a bunch of kids on my steps - on the stoops - and knowing that I wanted to direct them saying the lines. I don't really know how to articulate that 'cause there wasn't someone to show me.
Lee Daniels / Film Actor
Bunch
Steps
Virginia
Woolf
Articulate
Experience Me Know
Earliest
Edward
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Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, and we don't have it. So it's all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don't like, but you can't leave them because you're stuck with them.
Lee Daniels / Film Actor
Family Members
Members
Stuck
Time Is Money
War Time Family
War Family Time
Putting
Quickly
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I felt hopeful for the future because Obama is here. But nothing has changed. It's time for young kids to get serious again and really think about what their four fathers were like. As African-Americans, we are resilient, we are some bad mf-ers, and we are survivors. So get those i-pods out of their ears and become heroes again like the Freedom Riders.
Lee Daniels / Film Actor
Kids
Father
Hero
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