Top 85 Smollett Quotes
#1. To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
David McCullough
#2. There will be a Jussie Smollett album. I signed to Columbia. So, darling, I'm label mates with Beyonce and Adele and Barbra Streisand.
Jussie Smollett
#3. For the first time, Smollett adopted a device that Barbara Foley calls "pseudofactual imposture," a strategy of presentation that we associate with the fictions of Behn, Defoe, and Richardson.
Tobias Smollett
#4. As an artist, you want to do roles that challenge you and say something.
Jussie Smollett
#5. I don't really think about the critics or the commercial success.
Jurnee Smollett
#7. You go through those awkward, dorky, geeky stages, and growing up in the industry amplifies all that. Fortunately, I have a mother who encouraged me to build my confidence from within and embrace my imperfections.
Jurnee Smollett
#8. There's not one human being on the planet earth who has never felt, at some point, unaccepted. At some point in our lives, we feel like we're not good enough, but we have to step back and realize that we are.
Jussie Smollett
#9. The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.
Tobias Smollett
#10. When I was younger, I really struggled with confidence.
Jurnee Smollett
#11. I try to give each performance my own soul, to bring a truth to my character. Hopefully, when I bring that much truth to a character, it resonates with somebody, and it sparks some kind of emotion in them.
Jurnee Smollett
#12. A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.
Tobias Smollett
#13. As an artist, you want to stretch. That's the only way you're going to grow. If I stay inside my comfort zone, do roles that I've done before, then I'm never going to get better as an actress.
Jurnee Smollett
#14. that report has influenced my opinion of his looksYou know we are the fools of prejudice. Howsoever
Tobias Smollett
#15. I would love to do a song with Janet Jackson. Janet was, is, forever will be, the ultimate. She's the ultimate dream girl for every guy - and for every girl.
Jussie Smollett
#16. When a television show like 'Scandal' becomes the biggest show in recent history, suddenly advertisers and networks want to jump on that. And what it's showing is that people want to see diversity.
Jussie Smollett
#17. My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.
Jurnee Smollett
#18. The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.
Tobias Smollett
#19. There are projects I've done, such as 'Queen,' where I played Halle Berry and Danny Glover's son, where I'm so extremely proud of the work that I did that I will sit down and watch that any time.
Jussie Smollett
#21. Writing is all a lottery
I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.
Tobias Smollett
#22. I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty. I've done it all. I've worked as a clown, literally, at children's parties.
Jussie Smollett
#23. I was working at a non-profit for five years. But I could always create music after work. All throughout those years, I was writing songs and recording music and performing around town.
Jussie Smollett
#24. I just live my life. I go where I feel God is calling me.
Jurnee Smollett
#26. One of the most tragic things about slavery was the mental enslavement, the way they made us believe that we were worth nothing; and that's what she's fighting against.
Jurnee Smollett
#27. A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.
Tobias Smollett
#28. I know about homophobia in the music industry - not just in hip-hop. Obviously, we're dealing with homophobia in hip-hop; we're dealing with homophobia in the black community.
Jussie Smollett
#29. True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone.
Tobias Smollett
#30. Vanessa Williams in person is like ... the camera cannot capture how gorgeous this woman is! She is just so breathtaking.
Jurnee Smollett
#31. There is such malice, treachery, and dissimulation, even among professed friends and intimate companions, as cannot fail to strike a virtuous mind with horror; and when Vice quits the stage for a moment, her place is immediately occupied by Folly...
Tobias Smollett
#34. I come from a family of four brothers, so I like sports.
Jurnee Smollett
#35. I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.
Tobias Smollett
#36. There's a level of shame attached to our history, and we need to replace that shame with pride and own our history. These are our superheroes. These are our people, and I would love to see us own this side of our history with pride.
Jurnee Smollett
#40. I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy.
Jussie Smollett
#41. Nature I'll court in her sequester'd haunts,
By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove, or cell;
Where the pois'd lark his evening ditty chants,
And health, and peace, and contemplation dwell.
Tobias Smollett
#42. Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.
Tobias Smollett
#43. Everyone has a past, but I try not to let that affect the way I see them; I want to get to know who they are today.
Jurnee Smollett
#44. Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.
Jussie Smollett
#45. You work hard and you pray, and you do something where you know the energy around the project is right, but you never really know if it's going to hit and resonate with audiences.
Jussie Smollett
#46. I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates has an amazing documentary called Many Rivers to Cross - really, his whole writings; he's such a wealth of knowledge.
Jurnee Smollett
#47. At every place where we halted, did she mount the stage, and flourished her rusty arms, without being able to make one conquest.
Tobias Smollett
#48. 'Mighty Ducks' was a great experience, and I don't shy away from that.
Jussie Smollett
#49. I feel the weight of just telling the truth. There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.
Jussie Smollett
#50. I have Jewish friends. I have Middle Eastern friends. I have Spanish and Italian and British and Scottish and German friends and Austrian friends, and guess what? They all deal with homophobia. It's an earthling epidemic; it's not isolated in the black community.
Jussie Smollett
#51. I don't throw around the word 'brother' because I'm so, so close to my real-life brothers and my real-life sisters, and being a brother is so important to me.
Jussie Smollett
#52. I am oftentimes the ear for some people that I know and love. Which I like being. I don't know if I'd like being a marriage counselor, though, because that's too deep for me.
Jurnee Smollett
#53. I keep saying that, if Samuel L. Jackson and Bette Davis could have a baby, it would be Taraji P. Henson. To me, she's one of the greatest character actors of our generation, let alone leading ladies. She's just phenomenal in everything she does.
Jussie Smollett
#54. Deep in the frozen regions of the north,
A goddess violated brought thee forth,
Immortal Liberty!
Tobias Smollett
#55. Thy spirit, Independence, let me share! Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
Tobias Smollett
#58. Me releasing my music, if anything, is an opportunity to show the world my stories and tell the world my stories.
Jussie Smollett
#60. You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!
Robert Louis Stevenson
#61. My absolute idols growing up were Michael Jackson and Prince, and so, to get the stamp of approval from someone like Timbaland whom I know that these artists respect, that is a huge feat.
Jussie Smollett
#62. Ridiculous modes, invented by ignorance, and adopted by folly.
Tobias Smollett
#63. There are so many people who will try and make you feel like your opinion doesn't matter, and I've learned how important it is to use your voice.
Jurnee Smollett
#64. I used to hear people say nobody can prepare you for fame, and it's actually very true. But there is such beauty that comes with it when you're able to use your platform in a positive way.
Jussie Smollett
#65. I want to continue to be the same man I've always been.
Jussie Smollett
#67. My family is from Elmhurst, Queens, 54th Avenue, but I was born in Northern California.
Jussie Smollett
#69. If you change because of fame, that's not the right thing. But if you change because of growth, that's normal ... The whole fame thing hasn't hit me. And I hope it kind of doesn't.
Jussie Smollett
#70. Thy fatal shafts unerring move;
I bow before thine altar, Love!
Tobias Smollett
#72. I have so many passions outside of my passion for acting.
Jurnee Smollett
#73. I went into a Whole Foods to buy chewable vitamin C and got tackled by, like, 15 girls who watch 'Empire.'
Jussie Smollett
#74. The capital is become an overgrown monster; which like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.
Tobias Smollett
#75. We have many obligations to this good lady, who is a kind neighbour, an obliging friend, and a most agreeable companion: she speaks English prettily, and is greatly attached to the people and the customs of our nation. They
Tobias Smollett
#76. One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.
Tobias Smollett
#77. I think that any actor - any artist, period - would love to work with an artist like Lee Daniels.
Jussie Smollett
#79. But really, for me, I tried to find first-person accounts. I tried to read stories from men and women who had survived slavery because it's different when you hear it from their mouths instead of reading it from a history book.
Jurnee Smollett
#80. My little brothers loved baseball. I'm not as big on that as basketball or football, but I understand the game.
Jurnee Smollett
#81. Of this diversion the Scots are so fond, that, when the weather will permit, you may see a multitude of all ranks, from the senator of justice to the lowest tradesman, mingled together, in their shirts, and following the balls with utmost eagerness.
Tobias Smollett
#82. And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard.
Tobias Smollett
#84. I love music, and I love drumlines. I like school bands a lot. There's nothing wrong with cheerleading, but I'd rather be a band geek. It's a little more interesting.
Jurnee Smollett
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