Djimon Quotes

#1. Tonight I'll be interviewing Ken Watanabe, Keisha Castle Hughes, Benecio Del Toro and Djimon Honsou - and yes, those are actors, not caterers.

Joan Rivers

#2. It's about prioritizing. Just take it one step at a time. Do the best that you can. I'm a mom and I have two husbands - an ex husband and a next husband. It's a blended family and it's very hard to keep things together, but we're happy and we live in love. Djimon and I are so happy.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#3. Don't live the same year seventy-five times and call it a life.

Robin S

#4. School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.

Djimon Hounsou

#5. Gentleness in the gait is what simplicity is in the dress. Violent gestures or quick movements inspire involuntary disrespect.

Honore De Balzac

#6. If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.

Djimon Hounsou

#7. Hunter pulled away, rolling her eyes.
"Hey, where are you going?" I murmured. "We're not done making up."
"We're in crisis mode out there," she answered, reluctantly taking another step back.
"It's always crisis mode in this house," I said with disgust."
"Chapter 24

Alyxandra Harvey

#8. The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

Djimon Hounsou

#9. The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.

Djimon Hounsou

#10. Some of the reason why you have so many divorces is that we tend to get married, most of the time, not for ourselves, but for others, or for how it looks to others.

Djimon Hounsou

#11. Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

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#12. The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much in its literal 'objectivity,' as in subjective qualities like its usefulness, its 'elegance,' or its congruity with our residual beliefs

William James

#13. What's a self-respecting amusement park without a ghost?

Stephen King

#14. They've got to have backups on the cloud, or the mist, or whatever it's called.

Penny Reid

#15. I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

Djimon Hounsou

#16. Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

Djimon Hounsou

#17. You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

Laurie Anderson

#18. A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.

Alan Moore

#19. A lot of times, we also have to live and work. You have to make money to pay rent. In that respect, I don't think you can be so demanding. Those great stories are not the normal stories that come on a daily basis. It's a struggle to land those roles. Everybody is looking for the good parts.

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#20. It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career.

Djimon Hounsou

#21. One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.

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#22. There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

Erma Bombeck

#23. I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.

Djimon Hounsou

#24. So the great affair is over but whoever would have guessed
it would leave us all so vacant and so deeply unimpressed
It's like our visit to the moon or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing if you really want to go that far.

Leonard Cohen

#25. The first time you see the film it takes you right back to those times and those moments. It's very difficult to be objective about the work because you really have to remove yourself and see it a couple of times before you can really involve yourself in the story.

Djimon Hounsou

#26. Rehearsals are set up so that you find out all the nuances about your character. You never want to beat yourself up. It's about finding the right direction, and most of the time, the right direction is not what you think is the right direction. That's why the director's there: to guide you there.

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#27. We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.

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#28. All of my characters are less than perfect.

Barbara Park

#29. America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

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#30. Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

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#31. I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.

Djimon Hounsou

#32. When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?

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#33. My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.

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#34. Bronchitis is a long-term disease of the lungs. It is one disease in a group of lung diseases called COPD or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The damage

Anonymous

#35. Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.

Djimon Hounsou

#36. As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.

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#37. I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

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#38. Because when you wear a mask long enough, it gets really hard to take it off. The mask becomes your face.

Simon R. Green

#39. The sound was like a gentle breeze of joy on a warm summer day. It wrapped around his senses and his heart. That was the moment, and he knew he'd be telling her about it fifty years from now when she asked him when it was that he knew that he loved her.

Grace Willows

#40. It really is a helluva fiver-upper," Henry said, because someone had to say it. "I feel like they should possibly renovate this basement if they want to get a good sale price. Hardwood floors, update the doorknobs, maybe put the wall back.

Maggie Stiefvater

#41. I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

Djimon Hounsou

#42. Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

Djimon Hounsou