Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots. "

Related Quotes:

" In America, it is difficult to be your own man. "

" I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life. "

" My autobiography was simply the story of my life. "

" I'm not a library. "

" I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is possible that my mother is the principal reason for my life. "

" Jackie Robinson is a true legend. "

" To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. "

" My wife collects knickknacks. "

" But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity. "

" Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures. "

" My father was very big on marriage. "

" I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before I came into it - all the way back a hundred thousand years, to the beginning of our species. "

" I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people. "

" I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. "

" I lived in a country where I couldn't live where I wanted to live. I lived in a country where I couldn't go where I wanted to eat. I lived in a country where I couldn't get a job, except for those put aside for people of my colour or caste. "

" My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. "

" My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me. "

" I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before. "

" I'm a good person. "

" I get offered work these days. "

" To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. "

" I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. "

" An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return. "

" So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness. "

" In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man. "

" So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one. "

" So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was. "

" I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life. "

" I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable. "

" My father was the quintessential husband and dad. "