R- THE DON Quotes

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

It's much easier to cry or be angry, but to really laugh and genuinely be buoyant and laugh. That's hard if you don't really feel that way.

I think if you were to look at my resume in total you would see a lot of things that are kind of all over the map.

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.

Yeah! I went to the set of Monuments Men.

We're always trailing, as far as the amount of roles that are written for us and the films that are being made that have black characters in them. I don't know if that's going to change.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I want to be a part of great things.

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.

Maximise the alternative forms in which a user might receive a service, and the alternative sources of supply.

Starting pitching will either lead you to the White House or the out house.

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

I'm not in charge of making moves, you know. I'm in charge of coaching.

I don't believe there's a baseball job that I couldn't take care of.

That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.

We don't get what we deserve. We get what we BELIEVE we deserve.

I am just convinced that people want to see people on TV who are more like themselves.

I was never exposed to a great deal of racism, but the Chicago I grew up in was very, very segregated.

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

David Wong is like a mash-up of Douglas Adams and Stephen King . . . ‘page-turner’ is an understatement.

I had the good fortune early on to cast some really great people that were not just characters, they had character.

You should have fun when you're acting. That's when magic happens.

Capital T truth is dead.

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God.

The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the work and has all the power.

To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.

The spine as a whole operates as a functional unit. Each vertabra can affect its neighbor and one portion of the spine may affect or damage other areas of the body.

In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.

I'd like to lose interest in myself.

There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to live.

I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.

Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.

People say great art is immortal. I say there's something mortal in it. It carries a glimpse of death.

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

War is the ultimate realization of modern technology.

He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.

Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.

All human existence is a trick of light.

The more things I threw away, the more I found.

Do people still shoot at presidents? I thought there were more stimulating targets.' (20)

I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.

I think if you maintain a force in the world that comes into people's sleep, you are exercising a meaningful power.