Top 37 Peebles Quotes
#1. My father, Melvin van Peebles, and my mother were both very active politically when I was a kid. The first time I was allowed to stay up late was to attend a demonstration.
Mario Van Peebles
#2. I'm not a cinematic cinematic person. I go to the movies like I did back when I was a kid. I go to the movies and I sit down. If the music works, hmm. If it doesn't work, hmm. The whole concept of the thing, not as one piece here or there. For me, music is a large part.
Melvin Van Peebles
#3. Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor.
Melvin Van Peebles
#5. My dad always said there's four phases in an actor/director's life. There's 'Mario Who?' There's 'Get me Mario!' 'Get me a young Mario,' and 'Mario Who?'
Mario Van Peebles
#6. Music is for theater like theater is for scripts. It's total: it's cyclical.
Melvin Van Peebles
#7. I looked at him as if he was one Prozac away from a straightjacket.
Chrissy Peebles
#8. In the game of cricket it has always been customary to accord more adulation to batsman than to bowlers.
Ian Peebles
#11. No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't.
Mario Van Peebles
#12. My characters have a mind of their own. I'm just the vessel through which they speak.
Ginny Lynn Peebles
#13. There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.
Mario Van Peebles
#15. I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.
Melvin Van Peebles
#16. Personally, I do movies the way I cook. I put in what I like, in case nobody else likes it and I have to eat it for the rest of the week.
Melvin Van Peebles
#17. Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.
Melvin Van Peebles
#18. When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.
Mario Van Peebles
#19. My father told me you have two loves in your life: What you do and the people you're with.
Mario Van Peebles
#20. Collectively and individually fielding is largely a matter of thoughts and discipline.
Ian Peebles
#21. When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.
Mario Van Peebles
#22. I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.
Melvin Van Peebles
#23. If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of their color, try to play an attitude on camera and fail to remember their job is to fit into an entertainment.
Mario Van Peebles
#25. History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.
Mario Van Peebles
#26. The Rolling Stones suffered a great loss with the death of Ian Stewart, the man who had for so many years played piano quietly and silently with them on stage.
Andy Peebles
#28. I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.
Melvin Van Peebles
#29. Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.
Melvin Van Peebles
#30. People are now looking at the world in terms of axis of evil and evil-doers and by logical extension good-doers, and that's a very polarised look at good and bad people. Reality is much more complex than that and people can be good and evil on the very same day.
Mario Van Peebles
#32. If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.
Mario Van Peebles
#33. I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.
Mario Van Peebles
#34. Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.
Melvin Van Peebles
#36. I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano. Which is what I still do. I put the numbers on the keys. And that's got to become music again.
Melvin Van Peebles
#37. We think birth is a miracle and death is a tragedy, but really they're flip sides of the same coin - anything born is gonna die.
Mario Van Peebles
