Nelsan Ellis Quotes

#1. When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

E. M. Forster

#2. History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

Wilson Greatbatch

#3. With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get.

Nelsan Ellis

#4. Everyone chooses one of two roads in life - the old and the young, the rich and the poor, men and women alike. One is the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity, the other road to greatness and meaning.

Stephen Covey

#5. All soldiers dreamed of armistice, after all.

Courtney Milan

#6. People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a grass-roots level should be thus handled, and only delegated to a higher authority when necessary.

Peace Pilgrim

#7. I'm just another link in the chain.

Jeff Gordon

#8. When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.

Nelsan Ellis

#9. When you have kids that have no jobs and are not in school, too often they get themselves into trouble. So what we have got to do is invest in education and in jobs, something which I have fought for, rather than more jails and incarceration.

Bernie Sanders

#10. Watson, you idiot. Some so-and-so has stolen our tent.

Suzan St. Maur

#11. But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you.

Nelsan Ellis

#12. I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

Nelsan Ellis

#13. If you can earn enough money, but can't value it enough, it won't really make a difference

Harsh Agarwal

#14. Playing the game means treating your dogs like gentlemen, and your gentlemen like dogs.

Ted Tally

#15. Rihanna and makeup gets me into LaLa Land.

Nelsan Ellis

#16. Let's say that you have this mystical right to cut my legs off. But the right to ridicule me afterwards because I am a cripple - no, that I think you haven't got. And that's the right you hold most dearly, isn't it? You must be able to despise the people you exploit.

Jean Rhys

#17. A woman must make her fortune before she is 30; or work after she is 30; or get married.

Anna Held

#18. For me, the best things in life - meaningful work, meaningful relationships, interesting experiences, good food, sleep, music, ideas, sex, and other basic needs and pleasures - are not, past a certain point, materially improved upon by having a lot of money.

Ray Dalio

#19. I'd always dabbled in acting.

Nelsan Ellis

#20. June laughs. "I have to say, you look better than most people I see. I've heard a lot about you."
"I hear about you a lot too," Eden replies in a rush, "mostly from Daniel. He thinks you're really hot.

Marie Lu

#21. Onstage, I don't feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they're pushing me to do something new that feels good.

Jack White

#22. I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.

Nelsan Ellis