Quotes by Orlando Jones - Page 1

Love without limits; reverse the hate.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Hate
Limits
Reverse
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I'm challenging myself to reverse the hate.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Challenges
Challenging Myself
Hate
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Black
Want
Professionals
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Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Bad Movies
Belly
Interesting
Bad Movie
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I'm tired of cookie-cutter monolithic representation of black folks.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Representation
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Anytime you have a family member getting out of prison, there's always drama.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Prison
Anytime
Family Member
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The only reason I wanted to do 'MADtv' was because I grew up reading 'Mad Magazine' because I'm a comic-book nerd.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Mad
Nerd
Magazine
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Religion is a tool to stamp out oppression, repression, and tyranny. It's to save the oppressed. That's what religion is for.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Oppressed
Repression
Tyranny
Stamp
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Ultimately, the core premise of 'American Gods' is, 'What do you believe?' And how your beliefs can be manifested into reality.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Core
Beliefs
Manifested
Premise
Ultimately
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I've been in fandom for a really long time. Back in the day, you had to go to a con to engage in fandom, and that was really the only way.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Time Long Day
Con
Engage
Really Long Time
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Sometimes I'm more inspired by stuff that tells a story and less inspired by stuff that's not a natural extension of what I'm already doing.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Extension
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I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Ten
Belt
Commercials
Walked
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When I was on 'Mad TV,' I figured my parents were watching, and that was it. It wasn't 'Saturday Night Live,' so it didn't really have the same high profile.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Profile
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Figured
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Graphic novels and comic books, by and large, as you know, have cover art, and they have interior art. The interior art is never as detailed as the cover art.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Graphic
Graphic Novels
Comic Books
Detailed
Interior
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You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Award
Clearer
Fulfill
Image
Row
Send
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It’s one of the most enjoyable experiences. To me, it’s theater. Immediate reaction, the second it’s done. I get to be in my living room with you, trolling my own show.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Done
Reactions
Rooms
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The Internet, to me, is about rebel culture, and I've always loved it. When I think of rebel culture, I think of rock-and-roll or hip-hop, and for a long time now, it's been the Internet.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Rebel
Time Culture Me
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Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Different
Next Steps
Our Generation
Big Part
Different Stages
Figuring
Generation
Next Step
Stages
Step
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It wasn't until 'Double Take' that I was in a movie as the leading man, in a character that was more straight and less broad than the other character, and where the story is really about him.
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Broad
Double
Leading Man
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'Sleepy Hollow' was really the first thing I'd done that gave me the opportunity in the modern age to build an authentic relationship with an audience that was a lot more like what happens in theater.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Hollow
Modern Age
Sleepy
Authentic
First Thing
The First Thing
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Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Brando
Differences
Freeman
Murphy
Personality
Years
Years Ago
Actor
Between
Difference
Eddie
Eddie Murphy
Explained
Met
Morgan
Morgan Freeman
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I sort of fell in love with the idea that we all love things that we're not supposed to, and that, often, that love is also 'tainted.' I wrapped it in sort of a graphic novel theme, and out of that came 'Tainted Love.'
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Graphic
Tainted
Wrapped
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With 'The Replacements,' it was insane. I'd never done a movie that opened up and made, like, seven million dollars. I'd never been part of, like, a four-day press junket for a movie that was international and domestic.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Movie
Dollars
Insane
International
Million Dollars
Seven
Domestic
Million
Opened
Press
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That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Hero
Lap
Alien
Discover
Save
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My father marched in Selma. My father was there in Alabama. That's where I was born. My birth certificate says 'colored.' It does not say I'm African-American or black. So for me, those are real realities that are not subject to opinion.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
African American
Alabama
Birth
Birth Certificate
Certificate
Colored
Father Black Me
Realities
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People choose whatever projects they've seen that I've done over the years, and whichever one is their favorite is the only one they care about. But I realized that none of those were my voice or representative of what my thoughts and feelings were.
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Representative
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In New York, people are pretty cool, and you don't catch a lot of grief. But in certain spots, man, it's over. If I stand in the same place for more than 20 minutes or 10 minutes or something, there'll be 40 people standing there, all screaming something different.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Grief
Spots
Cool Man People
Catch
Screaming
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If you come on the set of 'Sleepy Hollow,' and you go, 'So, is this a 'Once Upon a Time' spinoff?' That's right when we start slappin' people. It's right then. Now if you came on the set, and you were like, 'I like this show. It kinda reminds me of 'Supernatural,'' that gets you a high five.
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Hollow
Sleepy
Time Me Start
Reminds
Supernatural
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There was a guy that was friends with my father, a very well-known and powerful hustler on the Eastern seaboard. He was a very interesting guy who would literally rent a passenger van and would take the poor kids from the ghettos and black neighborhoods down to the sporting goods store and just spend money. Buy them whatever they want.
Orlando Jones / Comedian
Eastern
Goods
Hustler
Neighborhoods
Passenger
Rent
Van
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