Jackie Quotes - Page 3

• My father was like the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.

  Celina Jade

  Father, White, Guy

  "'Arrow' Interview: Celina Jade Opens Up About Shado". Interview with Ryan Rigley, www.mtv.com. April 3, 2013.

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• Coretta Scott King was all about her pearl earrings. At one point, I'm wearing pearl earrings the size of golf balls. They're enormous! She was bold-she knew that she was the Jackie Kennedy of her community.

  Carmen Ejogo

  Kings, Golf, Community

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• Jackie Chan, I've known him, he's a great guy. I know he's very watchable and fun. He's perfect, actually.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Fun, Perfect, Guy

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• I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen

  Jay-Z

  Running, Men, Dodge

  Song: Brooklyn Go Hard

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• My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

  Bruno Mars

  Dad, Temptation, Groups

  "Life on Mars". Interview with Rob Tannenbaum, www.playboy.com. March 27, 2012.

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• It's the saddest year in movies. We've got "Manchester," "Moonlight," "Chronic," "Jackie" ... it's sad when "American Honey" is the happiest film of the year and it's about runaways aimlessly trying to figure out their lives with no parental figures.

  Nick Kroll

  Years, Trying, Honey

  Source: variety.com

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• Jackie?" "It wasn't your fault.

  Tammara Webber

  Faults

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• James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because these were the guys who really got rock'n'roll going. I like to start with the origin of things, because once it gets along it changes. It's so interesting to see how it really was in the beginning.

  Michael Jackson

  Music, Strong, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Mar 29, 2013

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• My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'

  Ariel Winter

  Mother, Brother, Dad

  "Modern Family's Ariel Winter Turns Mermaid for Jake and the Never Land Pirates". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. June 27, 2012.

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• You think when Jesus comes back, he really wants to see a cross? That's like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on.

  Bill Hicks

  Religious, Jesus, Thinking

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• My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

  Eddie Murphy

  Real, Men, Sound

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• All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Baseball, Courage

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• Someone, I was beginning to suspect, had a bit of a gangster complex. It wasn't really very hard to figure out who. I mean, I was guessing it wasn't Christopher's aunt Jackie.

  Meg Cabot

  Mean, Aunt, Guessing

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Airhead Book 2: Being Nikki”, p.216, Scholastic Inc.

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• Only three things them ladies talk about: they kids, they clothes, and they friends. I hear the word Kennedy, I know they ain’t discussing no politic. They talking about what Miss Jackie done wore on the tee-vee.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Kids, Talking, Clothes

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.16, Penguin

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• Josh wanted to be the one to break the color barrier. When the Dodgers signed Jackie Robinson he knew it was over for him. He wasn't going to make the big leagues, and he also knew that because of his health and his bad knees his career with the Grays was about over. He didn't know what to do with himself. They say a man can't die of a broken heart, and I guess that's true. But I'll tell you this, all of this sure lessened Josh's will to keep going, to keep fighting to stay alive.

  Ted Page

  Baseball, Heart, Fighting

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• What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Player, Color, League

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Biddy Owens". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Eleanore S. Tyson, www.scholastic.com.

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• Communication Was never big in my house. We sat together over dinner, but the only sound you'd hear was crunching and chewing and the little ones asking for more, please. We lived, all boxed up in invisible containers. We hardly knew the people we called sister or father. Jackie and I were the exceptions to that rule.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Father, Communication, People

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• I got into the Kennedy White House because at the time I was president of the Women's National Press Club, and they assigned me to cover the early days of the Kennedy campaign. Jackie especially. Everyone was interested in the family.

  Helen Thomas

  White, House, President

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• Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones.

  Junot Diaz

  Morning, Pieces, Paper

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.219, Faber & Faber

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• I was in love with a lot of people, because I was a student of the game of comedy - Carol Burnett, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Don Rickles, Red Foxx, Moms Mabley - who gets no credit, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, George Kirby. I loved them all, and I used to just take a page out of all of them.

  Bernie Mac

  Mom, Games, People

  Interview, www.ign.com. March 27, 2003.

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• I remember working with Jackie Chan on Shanghai Noon [2000], and when we were working on the script, I thought that my character thought about being an outlaw the way a kid today would think about being a rock star, as a way to impress girls. So it was just kind of a funny idea, but once we had that idea, it changed the character and made it something that was funnier to me to play.

  Owen Wilson

  Girl, Stars, Character

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• The first real thing was Divine as Jackie Kennedy [in Eat Your Makeup]. His mother found the bloody Jackie Kennedy outfit in the boot of his car and said, 'What is this?" and Divine said, "I am Jackie Kennedy!" His mother just changed the subject; she didn't know what to say.

  John Waters

  Mother, Real, Makeup

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I like Jackie [Chan] because I've been a fan of Jackie's forever. He's broken every bone in his body for his commitment and dedication to doing his own stunts. So he's the real deal.

  Jason Statham

  Real, Commitment, Dedication

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I think the fact that she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a woman probably in those days would have been an additional criticism, although first ladies by definition in those days were women. There's always been a problem and still is, about the role the first lady should play, of course. Everybody's seen it in Jackie Kennedy and Nancy Reagan and, heaven knows, Hillary Clinton. So the problem has not been solved.

  William A. Rusher

  Thinking, Play, Heaven

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was doing an hour drama on television and a Jackie Chan movie in Toronto, so I was on a plane every three days.

  Debi Mazar

  Drama, Three, Television

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