Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I'm going to quit writing.
I am the me I choose to be.
I get offered work these days.
I don't very often read novels.
History passes the final judgment
Jackie Robinson is a true legend.
History passes the final judgment.
My father was very big on marriage.
I defend myself by improving myself.
I'll always be chasing you... Glory.
The older we get the less afraid we are.
I cannot be understood in three minutes.
I had two roles for which I compromised.
Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.
I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida.
In America, it is difficult to be your own man.
My father was the quintessential husband and dad.
My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.
The journey has been incredible from its beginning.
Mine was an easy ride compared to Jackie Robinson's.
I have always been a learner because I knew nothing.
I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.
I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.
A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.
When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.
I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.
Acting isn't a game of "pretend." It's an exercise in being real.
So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.
I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.
Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.
I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.
So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
If you apologize because you are afraid, then you are a child not a man.
Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.
You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.
There is not racial or ethnic domination of hopelessness. It's everywhere.
I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.
I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.
You don't have to become something that you aren't to become better than you are.
I did not go into the film business to be symbolized as someone else's vision of me.
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.
I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect.
Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.