Top 38 Cuba Gooding Jr Quotes
#1. My first film was with Cuba Gooding Jr, 'The Fighting Temptations,' and I had a little part here and there on little shows as guest stars. And I've taken acting classes.
NeNe Leakes
#2. I did 'Lonely Hearts' with John Travolta and James Gandolfini. Talk about getting over your fears. These guys were amazing! Also, Cuba Gooding, Jr. is one of my favorites. We've made 3 films together. He is such a generous, giving actor.
Christa Campbell
#3. Kissing was an extension of that, a celebration. A little party between us, amplifying our naive joy, our faith that the world was delighted to give us just what we wanted.
Katie Alender
#4. Somebody will beat both [contents and price] sooner or later because that is good old Free Enterprise, where the consumer benefits from battles between jolly green giants.
Kurt Vonnegut
#5. Resilience is rooted in habits we can cultivate and change.
Andrew Zolli
#6. This song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
#7. You traveled the world ... Now you must journey inwards ... to what you really fear ... it's inside you.
Liam Neeson
#8. I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it.
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#9. Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.
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#10. I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there are politicians from the 1800s as well as Tuskegee Airmen in my lineage.
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#11. I worked so much when my first son was born that I missed a lot.
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#12. Dannon brought the .22 up and shot him in the temple. Carver's head bounced off the side window and Dannon shot him again, the .22 shots deafening inside the truck, but hardly audible outside. Carver slumped, his face not even looking surprised.
John Sandford
#13. I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.'
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#14. I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.
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#15. Divorce is fairly common these days, and I think many times people disregard the emotional impact that divorce has on a couple and a family, because it happens so frequently.
Steve Carell
#16. As an actor you have to bring to the table your creative input. But when a director like Ridley Scott says I want you to do this this way, you know when he gets to the editing room he has a reason for it. It's like watching a masterpiece.
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#17. When I commit to a role, I always tell myself that role is king. That's the Bible. If I start to judge my character, than it's going to influence my performance, and I don't want that. I want to find the truth in the character.
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#18. There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act.
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#19. The Academy Awards was an amazing night. I know I kind of lost my mind a little bit. I apologize for that. That night went so fast; I can't remember what I said or what happened.
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#20. That awkward moment when you discover the guy you never wanted to know becomes the guy you want to understand.
R.K. Ryals
#21. I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.
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#23. All that is known for sure is that endometriosis is endemic and that it cannot be cured. Management is the best hope. This makes for treatments that are, if I am being polite, based on trial and error. If I am feeling less generous, they are shots in the dark.
Rose George
#24. What more can anyone take from me?" said my father, his head bent down. "Everywhere I go I carry my hell with me.
Sally Gardner
#25. What makes you think that what you know is any different from what I know?
I had different teachers.
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#26. I was born in Manhattan and grew up in Scarsdale. Scarsdale didn't work for me as a place at all.
Eve Ensler
#27. I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.
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#28. My wife and I have been together since 1986. I graduated in '86 and she graduated in '88. We began dating when she was 17. Actually she turned 18 when we started kissing and stuff.
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#30. I knew there was something that separated me from Ferdinand and the life of the bush about me. And it was because I had no means in my day-to-day life of asserting this difference, of exhibiting my true self, that I fell into the stupidity of exhibiting my things.
V.S. Naipaul
#31. The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.
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#32. I feel that's the richest gift that's ever been given to me: I get to do what I love. And it's a really brutal business, and no matter how successful you are you hear "No" more than "Yes."
Carla Gugino
#33. I have never made a decision based on race and never will.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#34. Go out by yourself, face the wind, hold up your head and thank God for this gardening year.
Richardson Wright
#35. It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.
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#36. Now, I have big-money offers on three movies, and I have director approval. That's kind of scary,' he says. 'No directors have been attached. That's a lot of pressure on me.
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#38. Jonathan Lynn is one of the last actors Orsen Welles used in a production. It was wonderful. He's very sharp, very sharp. It's funny I've been asked how weird it was to have a Brit do a church gospel movie.
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