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"1056 Career Quotes

My close-up was magnificent!
Close-Up Magnificent
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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

Almost Any Convince Down
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In the studio the director controls the actor's every move, every inflection, every expression.

Actor Controls Director Every
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In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

Acting Career Degree Earnestly
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In Hungary acting is a profession. In America it is a decision.
Acting America Decision Hungary
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If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.

Accent Also Betrayed Birth
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I'll take any story if it's good.

Any Good Story Take
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I'll be truthful. The weekly paycheck is the most important thing to me.

Important ImportantThing Me Most
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I look in the mirror and say to myself, Can it be you once played Romeo?

Look Mirror Myself Once
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

Against Anything Being Business
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I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

Criticized Dude Films Get
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T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.

Brother Call Career Close
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I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.

Baby Been Cry Forget
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I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

Become Dracula Find Played
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Fame hit me like a ton of bricks.

Fame Hit Me Like
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I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

Always Wished For This
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I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

Want Solidify An Artist
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My only scheme was to be a rapper.

My Only Scheme Was
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My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.

My Thing This Sick
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Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

Sometimes Feel Like Rap
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When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind.

Little Kid When Don't
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.

Did Get Good Slow
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My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school.

Baltimore Boy DJ Era
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I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

Want To Keep Making
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The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

Album Requires Certain Focus
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Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Anything Ever Said Certainly
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My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

My Overall Look Things
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Now that I understand that I'm an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

Now That Understand Addict
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Rap was my drug.

Rap My Drug Was
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I think when I first started, I tried to make believe I was in the ballpark, sitting next to somebody and just talking. And if you go to a ballgame, and you sit there, you're not going to talk pitches for three hours.

Ballgame Ballpark Believe First
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I couldn't see myself filling some definite niche in what is called a career. This was all misty.

Career Definite Filling Misty
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I got a record with Frank Ocean.

Got Record With Frank
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Our first album didn't work because we tried to be something we're not.

Our First Didn't Work
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Build a support network with a few other trusted entrepreneurs to share war and success stories with, otherwise, it becomes a very lonely journey.

Network Entrepreneurs Success Build
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.

Blessing Have Fans Acknowledging
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Our music attracts the people that we rap about and make music about, and they come out and actually do it.

Our Music Attracts People
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We can't stop anybody from doing what they want to do.

We Can't Stop Anybody
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I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.

Feel Like We Learn
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What keeps me going is that this I all there is. I am a comedian,What keeps me going is that this I all there is. I am a comedian, and this is what I do. It's like telling a fish to stop swimming. It'll die. and this is what I do. It's like telling a fish to stop swimming. It'll die.

Keeps Going Comedian Fish
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We know the fans love us to death, and the people that hear out music love our music.

We Know Ours Fans
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I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.

Audience Comedies Could Feel
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When I started my career, I started with black comics: Bruce Bruce, Mark Curry, Bill Bellamy. It takes all kinds of influences.

Bill Black Bruce Career
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My whole life, I knew that I was going to be funny for a living.
Funny Going Knew Life
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I've built a career on evenly entertaining men and women. And I'm kind of known for not making either side feel bad.

Bad Built Career Either
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I was once the captain of Akagi, and it is with heartfelt regret that I must now order that she be sunk.

Captain Heartfelt Must Now
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Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.

Air Anyone Failure First
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I entered the navy with the great ambition of becoming a naval soldier and going to war. Either I die from this festering wound - because I refuse to have my arm amputated - or I recover from it and continue being a soldier. I have a one-in-two chance, and I shall bet my life on it!

Ambition Arm Because Becoming
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There's nothing 'flash in the pan' about my career. It's been built fan by fan, city by city.

About Been Built Career
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I just want to be remembered as a fantastic player who gave everything for the team and enjoyed every bit of it.

Bit Enjoyed Every Everything
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Every step of my career was hard work.

Career Every Every Step Hard
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