I Realized Quotes - Page 29

• I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood. When somebody called me a 'dirty little Guinea', there was only one thing to do-break his head. When I got older, I realized that you shouldn't do it that way. I realized that you've got to do it through education. Children are not to blame. It is the parents. How can a child know whether his playmate is an Italian, a Jew or Irish, unless the parents have discussed it in the privacy of their homes.

  Frank Sinatra

  Children, Dirty, Home

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• What made me most courageous was that I realized I had to try to let go of that stereotype I had in my mind, that bit of homophobia, and try for a second to be vulnerable and sensitive. It was f**kin' hard, man. I succeeded only for milliseconds.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Letting Go, Men, Mind

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• When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that I have bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.

  Sam Worthington

  Dark, Bumps, Bruises

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• An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props, and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.

  Jeremy Irons

  Love, Age, Acting

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says you’re entitled to tell the truth, you get your face slapped and you get put out of work.

  Eartha Kitt

  Country, Hurt, Faces

  "Singer, Actress, Dancer Eartha Kitt Dies of Colon Cancer at Age 81", www.foxnews.com. December 25, 2008.

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• It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.

  Kristen Johnston

  New York, Moved, Tall

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• Life was tough for me. When I was a kid, nobody played with me because they thought I looked ugly with my extra thumb. It pained me. So once I thought of getting it surgically removed. But I didn't. Slowly, I realized that the exterior is not the criterion for love and success.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Kids, Ugly, Thumbs

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• After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Brain, Acting, May

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do.

  Rose McGowan

  Careers, Built

  FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Nov 02, 2011

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• Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.

  Dianna Agron

  Sensitive Person, Rejection, Age

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

  Lauren Graham

  Father, President, Different

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• I like to read quotes that touch on how I am feeling [on social media]. If I am dealing with confusion, I will read quotes about clarity and peace of mind. I started posting these quotes on my Twitter page, and the fans responded so positively! I realized that many of them were dealing with similar issues, and the quotes helped to open up a genuine dialogue between us.

  Keke Palmer

  Media, Issues, Confusion

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• I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow.

  Willie Aames

  Feet, Hollywood, Littles

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• The biggest challenges are always getting into the rooms that you need to get into and having people open to the types of stories that I want to tell. And I feel that just being a female director and doing that is a big deal in this country. On my third movie I worked with a French DP. I asked him has he ever worked with a woman director before? He said in France a third of directors are women; so you can’t avoid them. So I realized that the US is behind.

  Kasi Lemmons

  Country, People, Challenges

  "Interview: Kasi Lemmons & Raphael Saadiq Talk ‘Black Nativity’ – Casting, Soundtrack & More". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. November 18, 2013.

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• It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold. As the saga of the Skywalkers and Jedi Knights unfolded, I began to see it as a tale that could take at least nine films to tell - three trilogies - and I realized, in making my way through the back story and after story, that I was really setting out to make the middle story.

  George Lucas

  Stars, War, Writing

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• I was brought up as a Republican. But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a libertarian.

  Kurt Russell

  Differences, The End Of The Day, Libertarian

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Having agreed to play Elrond, I realized how much had to be worked out about this character: the idea of portraying someone who is immortal, for one thing; plus the fact he is noble, wise, powerful, good - and beautiful! I began to think that he was altogether impossible to play!

  Hugo Weaving

  Beautiful, Wise, Powerful

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• After years of working in professional kitchens, and then spending so much time in a lot of different home kitchens, I realized that there's a huge gap in the market where you have people who develop cookware but who don't actually cook.

  Curtis Stone

  Home, Years, People

  Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2012.

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• I realized how Latina I was, and then also, at the same time, how not Latina enough I was, because I’m born and raised in Los Angeles. I speak Spanish, but I don’t speak perfect Spanish, not like a native speaker

  America Ferrera

  Perfect, Speak, Los Angeles

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• I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Acquire

  "Lupita Nyong’o’s speech on ‘black beauty’ underscores her significance in Hollywood" by Bethonie Butler, www.washingtonpost.com. March 1, 2014.

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• Everyone said, ‘Brace yourself, Lupita! Keep a granola bar in that clutch of yours!’ I didn’t really understand what they meant, and it was only once it was past that I realized that my body had been holding on by a thread to get through this very intense experience. Nothing can prepare you for awards season. The red carpet feels like a war zone, except you cannot fly or fight; you just have to stand there and take it.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  War, Fighting, Past

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• I'm a 'What you see is what I want you to see' kind of girl . . . When I first started, I just wanted to be perfect. I wanted to say I loved bunnies and rainbows and world peace. I realized that the only way to be perfect was to embrace your imperfections.

  Olivia Munn

  Girl, Perfect, Rainbow

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• I really romanticized being pregnant. Then I realized, this is awful!

  Marcia Cross

  Awful, Being Pregnant, Pregnant

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• I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk

  Tom Selleck

  Challenges, Risk, Screens

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• As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget.

  Cloris Leachman

  Drama, Cowboy, Pigs

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