Top 41 Gooding Quotes
#1. I have worked with several art directors and production designers who are just magnificent. Dave Getz, Paul Felix, Ian Gooding ... just amazing artists, and I would say, if I had anything to do with it, I just pick good artists!
Roy Conli
#2. Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death ... before they breed more hemophiliacs.
Robert A. Heinlein
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Just what the hell is Will trying to prove with all of this do-gooding anyway? Rolling
Leta Blake
#6. 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.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#7. They could not handle my Light. Now, They will have to deal with my darkness.
A. Mani
#8. You're beautiful, he said bluntly, and I didn't expect you to be.
Dianne K. Salerni
#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.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#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.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#11. Geliebten Lakaien are once again here with us. Lisa, Heddy, Henrietta, Peter, and Jean Pierre,
Anne Rice
#12. I worked so much when my first son was born that I missed a lot.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#13. I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
Imelda May
#14. I speak to my agent about great roles, and he's like, 'They are all going to Will Smith.'
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#15. Daring Charming was facing her down. "It's no use, Cerise Hood," said Daring. "I am a Charming - brave, cunning, athletic - " Cerise faked left and dribbled right around him, driving toward the royals' end of the court.
Shannon Hale
#16. 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.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#17. 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.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#18. 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.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#19. 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.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#20. Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens.
Nick Hornby
#21. 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.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#22. The only way you can handle big kinds of questions is to simply state briefly what the truth was. What am I going to tell you about the Holocaust? Would you like three pages about it? I don't think you would ... I don't think anything different than you think - it was horrible.
Alan Furst
#23. Human Millipede 6 was the highest-grossing movie of the summer and returned Nicholas Cage to Oscar-winning status.
C.Z. Hazard
#24. I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#26. All the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade.
James Henry Gooding
#27. Do I really want to spend my whole life trying not to die by mistake?
Amanda Seyfried
#28. What makes you think that what you know is any different from what I know?
I had different teachers.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#29. I rewind the TV every two minutes. If someone does something interesting, I have to see it over and over again.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#30. 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.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#31. Of course, back then I was crimping my hair and wearing enormous shoulder pads that made me look like I played for the Minnesota Vikings. It's amazing anybody got laid in 1985, given what passed for fashion!" "I'll
Alexa Land
#33. 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.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#34. 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.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#35. I have never made a decision based on race and never will.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#36. Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
Anne Sullivan
#37. I always figured that I was one new editor away from unemployment.
David Horsey
#38. 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.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#39. 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.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
#41. I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
L'Wren Scott
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