Loretta Devine Quotes

#1. I've been a fan of Loretta Devine's, since I was a kid, from 'Waiting To Exhale,' and she's been in so many of my favorite movies and television shows.

Kevin Daniels

#2. People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.

Loretta Devine

#3. I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.

Patricia Arquette

#4. I had no idea of the historical evolution of the civilized world's music and had not realized that all modern music owes everything to Bach.

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

#5. We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

James Ramsey Ullman

#6. Let the main object ... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

John Amos Comenius

#7. The habit of stifling an impulse is your conditioned thinking, bent by society's stamp, doing its best to maintain its dominance.

Garry Fitchett

#8. The message has become clearer to the nation about AIDS. People used to think they could catch it all kinds of ways, but we now know that it is absolutely passed through bodily fluids.

Loretta Devine

#9. I get a lot of independent films from people who are starting out.

Loretta Devine

#10. The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.

Loretta Devine

#11. I still have to audition for most things.

Loretta Devine

#12. I'm in the process of trying to find something that I could do on my own.

Loretta Devine

#13. Whatever problems we encountered, we put there. If we trace the line back, every struggle derived from some decision we made. It is not chance, it is how we teach ourselves.

Thomm Quackenbush

#14. For movies, I usually do an entire book that has all kinds of things about what is happening at the time the movie is going on and try to get into what my character's going to be like, to try to get some consistency, because they shoot movies out of order.

Loretta Devine

#15. Although we amplify our cognitive degree of awareness and enhance our appreciation for life experiences by maturing, it also brings us death. Facing a certain death forces a person to examine the worthiness of continuing to live.

Kilroy J. Oldster