Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
When you're coming from a place of living just to work, it's never as good as you want it to be. It's never as authentic.
Even if I was running an idli shop for a living, I know that my idlis will taste good because that's how highly I rate my work ethic.
There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with palm trees. And there are cities like Detroit that have to work for a living.
'The Martin Show,' the 'Jamie Foxx show,' 'Living Single,' 'The Wayans Brothers,' 'Hanging with Mr. Cooper...' Some of these shows were good, some were typical television, but they facilitated a lot of work for blacks in front of as well as behind the camera. A lot of us in Hollywood thought it was the beginning of a real racial breakthrough.