Quotes by Michael Clarke Duncan - Page 1

I think I'd do pretty good on 'Glee' singing.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Glee
Pretty Good
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I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Different
Roles
Trying
Avoid
Different Roles
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I think as an actor you want to keep being challenged.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Challenged
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I'm used to being the big tough guy, the bodyguard type.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Bigs
Bodyguard
Guy
Tough
Tough Guy
Type
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When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Happens
Happens For A Reason
Reason
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My best advice about working in Hollywood is: Save your money!
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Advice
Best Advice
Hollywood
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I really don't have favorites; I'm just a fan of movies, period.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Movie
Actors
Fans
Periods
Favorites
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My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Sister
Frail
My Sister
Sister In Law
Used
Beat
Chest
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Whenever I'm having a bad day and have an attitude, I stay home. I keep it at home.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Attitude
Home
Bad Day
Stay
Having
Whenever
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Know what you want to do, because if you don't know what you want to do, you'll get stuck.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Ifs
Stuck
Want
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I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Acting
Roles
Trying
Love Myself Me
Apart
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I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Dream
Hollywood
People
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When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Chance
Theater
Trying
Check
Latest
Theaters
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Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Actors
Looks
People
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I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Eye
Looks
Lying
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People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Mean
Opinion
People
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Always wake up with a smile on your face, because a lot of people who went to sleep last night are not with us this morning.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Morning
Night
Sleep
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Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Beautiful
Beautiful People
Land
People
God Best Work
Out Here
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I'm the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I'm still convinced that it's teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Sports
Teacher
Athlete
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I believe that teachers committed to the community are the ones who deserve to earn the top dollar, a starting salary of a quarter million dollars a year.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Teacher
Believe
Years
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The government needs the help of industry. But the reality is companies will balance that against their own commercial interest in a very competitive market.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Government
Balance
Reality
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So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Believe
Giving Up
Mother
Life Mother Always
Believing
Never Give Up
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When I was coming up, I kept a ton of comic books, almost 300 comic books. Back in the day, they didn't used to cost that much, so I used to keep 'em, collect 'em, trade 'em.
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Comic
Cost
Collect
Ton
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I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy, and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight!
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Guy
Sexy
Weight
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I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy - and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight!
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Pounds
Producers
Weight
Big Guy
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I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.
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Derogatory
Names
Real
Talking
Time Music Me
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The person that's always talkin', you don't have to worry about that person. The person that while you're in his face, he's just lookin' at you with a smile on his face, that's the guy you worry about.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Smile
Faces
Guy
Worry
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I always say YCDA: you can do anything. If you want to be a successful actor, you have to believe in yourself more than anything else, and dont let anybody tell you that you cannot do it because you can.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Actors
Believe
Successful
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Don't depend on acting as your sole source of income. Work nights, so you can have your days off to attend auditions. Have something to fall back on. That's what my mother taught me, and it's critical in Hollywood.
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Fall
Mother
Night
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David Boreanaz is actually a very good director and he directed one of our episodes. Excellent director, knew exactly what he wanted. We never had long days with David. He was great, he knew exactly what he wanted and he's a fantastic director.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Episodes
Wanted
Actually
Good Great Long
David
Days
Directed
Exactly
Exactly What
Good Director
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A lot of kids think they can just go to Hollywood and become an actor or actress. It's not that easy. There are millions of kids who come out here wanting to act. So, you have to have a plan, and you have to stick with that plan, because it's not going to be easy by any means.
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Kids
Mean
Thinking
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China has been a textbook case of how the government did just enough intervention to increase penetration, but the reality is that it isn't going to work for all countries in the same way. Culture always plays a role and you can't necessarily take what worked in one market and automatically make it work somewhere else.
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Government
Country
Reality
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Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Funny
Acting
Chicago
Elementary School
Said
School
Funny Me Laugh
Actor
Funny Me School
Oh
Elementary
Laugh
Shakespeare
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You gotta remember I was homeless. Whenever I think I have something to complain about. I go outside, walk across the street and look at my home, and remind myself of the time I was living on the damn lakefront in a car full of garbage bags with clothes, and ask myself, "What do you possibly have to be upset about?" I have nothing to complain about.
Michael Clarke Duncan / Actor
Home
Clothes
Thinking
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