Roundtree Quotes

#1. My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.

Ed Bradley

#2. I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'

Samuel L. Jackson

#3. When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.

Richard Roundtree

#4. For the artisan, craft is an end in itself. For you, the artist, craft is the vehicle for expressing your vision. Craft is the visible edge of art.

David Bayles

#5. The doctor told me, 'You have breast cancer.' I heard the cancer part first - it was only later that I heard the breast part. I couldn't believe it.

Richard Roundtree

#6. One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.

Ted Danson

#7. If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do.

Richard Roundtree

#8. I don't know if it's a racial thing or not, but it's hard for the Roundtrees to talk about health issues. People have to get over all that stuff.

Richard Roundtree

#9. As much as possible, I'd like every role to be totally different from the one before.

Richard Roundtree

#10. It was a powerful man indeed who could mix integrity with savvy.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. There's nobody more opposite from John Shaft than a kid who worships a banana as his god.

Richard Roundtree

#12. When you go into a film, you read it, and something clicks for you, and you like it, and you sign on for it; you go for it. You know that this is going to be a good film, and that is your best hope. Past that, it's a crap shoot - you roll the dice.

Richard Roundtree

#13. I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans' lives.

Richard Roundtree

#14. I was in the closet, so to speak, until after the fifth year when I was cancer-free.

Richard Roundtree

#15. No matter how often we fail in any endeavor, we never get used to the feeling of depression that assails us after each successive failure.

Jim Corbett

#16. I'm not really much of a video game player; my son would be the expert in that department. The only game I would really play is golf, the Tiger Woods video game.

Richard Roundtree

#17. There's so much that we just accept, but the reasons behind how certain rules came to be are so fascinating and funny, it just increases your affection for language.

Ursula Dubosarsky

#18. Although it happens more rarely in men, breast cancer is not gender-specific. I was in Costa Rica, and in the shower I felt this lump under my left nipple. It was very small, mind you, but enough to make me call my doctor.

Richard Roundtree

#19. I'm sweaty and sore and I can feel his come leaking out of my ass and onto the pillow he propped under me. I really hope Mrs. Gieger is well compensated.

Jana Aston