When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‘One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.’ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother. Mr. T Read Quote
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist. Christopher McQuarrie Read Quote
I could have been a superstar in America – I was certainly taken out there. But I said, ‘No way, Jose, I’m not staying here in this madhouse.’ Charlotte Rampling Read Quote
People want to know if I have a moral standpoint that they should be picking up on, and the truth is, I don’t. I don’t want people to think that I’m trying to tell them to feel a certain way. I think that’s cheap filmmaking. Jason Reitman Read Quote
There’s a certain cruelty to being on a big screen as your eyelids start to sag and your hair falls out and turns gray that you either have to be able to handle or not. What you can’t do is try to force yourself into roles that you could have played or would have played ten years earlier. George Clooney Read Quote
Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll. Keith Richards Read Quote
I stand here today – in the shadow of my parents’ and grandparents’ accomplishments – because of their willingness to sacrifice and look to my future. David Ige Read Quote
Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female. Nicholas Kristof Read Quote
Same thing with film, by the time you’ve finished shooting and you’ve really been into everything, you’ve touched up everything in the editing room. You’ve gone in there and taken little bits from everything. Ridley Scott Read Quote
What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. Phyllis Diller Read Quote