Al David Quotes

Don't send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend; I just won't do that.

People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.

To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance.

Female directors, directors of color are a big thing for me, which are both important voices and potent voices that need to be heard. That's how I want to engage myself as an actor going forward.

Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal slavery was and what its brutal legacy still is.

When I am playing a role far away from me with an accent that is not mine I always employ a dialect coach. I am almost always playing someone that has an accent that is not mine.

The perception of Africa, whether in the U.S. or in Europe, is of a continent that needs help, and cannot pull itself up. That is just not true.

I do think how two people dance with each other is indicative of how they feel about each other. It can tell a lot more than a verbal scene.

You're always looking for roles and other creatives who are going to be challenging to you, because you're always a better actor after the experience.

One of the occupational hazards of being an actor, the reason why so many actors are insecure, is that the only way we know we're good is when other people tell us.

I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw something that I did, in youth theater or some small play somewhere, and said, "You're good."

Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.

I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer.

I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I've done. I want to be able to stand by it.

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.

I love tennis, love it!

I like to think of myself as a physical actor.

I love that as a black person I've experienced not being a minority. I think that's helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

More organizations die of indigestion than starvation

Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible

My kids don't really like when I sing for some reason...but they like when I play guitar. So I started writing songs just playing guitar for them.

Now since I've gotten back into it, I've been listening to a lot more of the 1990s death metal type stuff.

We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.

In my entire life I never set out to do anything ground-breaking or pioneering, and I'm not going to start anytime soon.

There are so many things that kept forcing metal back down to the underground. It survives everywhere on the planet.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

We just have to plan everything in advance and concentrate it so that we get everything done in time. It's not as laidback as I wish it could be.

As far as specific bands from the 90s death metal era, I love Death, Carcass, Possessed, Morbid Angel, Gorguts, Autopsy, Atheist, etc.

I listen to every type of metal under the sun. I'm not very discerning.

I was into Metallica when they first started, like when Kill Em All came out.

I was into the music, but the idea of showing up places on time or having to tell people when you're not going to be somewhere - that just didn't even cross my mind.

People like a story that has a lot of blood, sweat and tears. But I don't think the Slint story really has that.

Most people found out about Slint in the mid or late 90s, but we were an '80s band. We started in 1986 and broke up at the end of 1990.

It was pretty common to form bands that only lasted a few years. Slint was my favorite band that I was in at the time, and I didn't realize that I was bummed out about it until quite a while later.

When I was younger and bands were formed that way, out of friendships rather than anything else. It wasn't like we put up want ads.

The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets.

To be honest, just trying to get everybody together in one room to get our picture taken for the back of the album, it took so long just to organize that.

When I was really young, I was really into Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden and those kinds of bands.

Everybody agrees that a future in which you are dead is a very bad thing, and that it isn't made any better by your not being around to notice how bad it is.

Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.

Look in every city or any town. Travel by foot, or train or plane. Do not settle until there is love. For there, there will be the address of your happiness.

Though we cannot see the heart, we can see the life.

For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.

Tears are another river that takes us home. We become alive with tears. There isn't a chance to return to sleep when we are weeping.

Sometimes the Good is the enemy of the BEST!

Carbs are devastating for the brain.

Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends. Discerning the two is a life's work.