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I came to Hollywood to write ...

I came to Hollywood to write and found out I don't have the attention span.

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People enjoy making fun of pe...

People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down.

Lee Daniels 25 quotes

In L.A., I was a talent manag...

In L.A., I was a talent manager for many years. I represented many African-American actors. After a while, I became disheartened over the shortage of roles for African Americans.

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I drank from colored water fo...

I drank from colored water fountains and from the white water fountain just to see what it was like when I was a kid. What shocks me is that these kids today don't realize that this happened in many of our lifetimes.

Lee Daniels 25 quotes

I don't read the reviews, the...

I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film.

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When I was young, I went to a...

When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar.

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I've had all types of beautif...

I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if it's someone else's reflection they see.

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'Empire' was a very traumatic...

'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be.

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'Push' had a story, 'The Pape...

'Push' had a story, 'The Paperboy' story you could just throw up in the air and shoot holes through the book because the story wasn't as strong. But I felt the characters were stronger in 'The Paperboy'; they were vivid.

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I started casting. I cast mus...

I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting.

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I moved on to a nursing agenc...

I moved on to a nursing agency as a receptionist just to get a job, and ended up managing it, which led to me opening my own - say your mom is sick and needs someone to help her, then you call something like what I had: a home health agency.

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I think that, as African-Amer...

I think that, as African-Americans, oftentimes we have to put ourselves on pedestals as opposed to really looking at ourselves and trying to understand ourselves and become better people. We always have to be on pedestals.

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I was the oldest of five chil...

I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full.

Lee Daniels 25 quotes

I didn't have the sensibiliti...

I didn't have the sensibilities of your ordinary filmmaker, let alone your ordinary African-American filmmaker. My heroes were John Waters, Pedro Almodovar, and actors that were part of that world.

Lee Daniels 25 quotes

I come from a family of domes...

I come from a family of domestics. I think most African-Americans of my age do. They were trusted by their bosses. I have met so many white people that spent more time with their nannies than they have with their own parents.

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My earliest experience was re...

My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at 8, you know, with a bunch of kids on my steps - on the stoops - and knowing that I wanted to direct them saying the lines. I don't really know how to articulate that 'cause there wasn't someone to show me.

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When people don't like the fi...

When people don't like the film, I can take a bullet. I don't mind you talking about me, but I'm protective of my actors, because they bared their soul for me.

Lee Daniels 25 quotes

Putting on a movie is like go...

Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, and we don't have it. So it's all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don't like, but you can't leave them because you're stuck with them.

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I want to go to places that a...

I want to go to places that are unexpected of me because people really think they have me pegged.

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I don't want to sell my soul ...

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

Lee Daniels 25 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....