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" You never know when what you do in the arts means something to people, and you never really know if you've been received well. "
Louis Gossett, Jr.
You
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" I believe the gift of acting is a gift from God, my oath to God, and I want to make sure on a daily basis that it is honed and deeply spiritual... I want to believe that the audience believes that my acting comes from this special place. "
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" I grew up with all my cousins. The men worked, and the older women raised us - my mother, my aunt, my grandmother. My great-grandmother was the matriarch, and sometimes there were 30 of us. "
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" After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. I thought I'd get a lot of offers - and they didn't come. "
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" There are beautiful words in the Bible and in our pledges and the Declaration of Independence. "
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" We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future. "
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" There's really nothing like a live audience right there. When you're in a bad show, you can hear the creaks in the chairs. "
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" I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop. "
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" My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is. "
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" I think God asks us to promise to replenish the planet and to pay 100% attention to our young so that they will develop character and a good conscience. "
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" I had an Oscar, an Emmy, and yet I had this big hole in my soul. "
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" The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage, and that's when I flew. "
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" I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity. "
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" I'm cancer-free. And I'm on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don't have resentment any more. It's wonderful. "
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" I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered. "
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" I am so grateful that the public has given me this gift. They look at me as a person - not as a race or a color. The word for it is freedom - to be accepted as me. "
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" I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts. "
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" When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it. "
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" One of the most fascinating projects I worked on right after 'Officer' was 'Sadat,' a role for which Anwar Sadat's widow, Jehan, personally chose me. Although this TV miniseries won me nominations for the Golden Globe and an Emmy, strangely, it was boycotted in the Middle East. "
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