E. A. Davis Quotes

The first two or three movies I did, I'd be around famous co-stars and totally pretend like I didn't care, but inside, I was shaking. I've been weaning myself off that.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?

Play what you know and then play above that

There is no such thing as sportsmanship.

As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

Physics can be difficult sometimes. And by sometimes, I mean always. And by Physics, I mean everything.

I think every Negro over fifty should get a medal for putting up with all that crap.

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

I was thought to be "stuck up." I wasn't. i was just sure of myself.

I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil.

Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.

Obviously there are some organizations that go out on the street and say we want an end to the capitalist system. But obviously that is not going to happen as a result of just assuming that stance.

I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context of the globalization of capital.

I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.

There are no wrong notes.

You can't eat a winner's plaque.

They say, 'To serve is to love,' and I think to serve is to heal, too.

We're not going to play the blues anymore. Let the white folks play the blues. They got 'em, so they can keep 'em.

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

It feels really good to embrace exactly who I am and be my sexy, to be my sexualized, to be my woman.

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.

One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may it never come) will be the mathematicians' war.

The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

I'm probably less volatile and tempestuous than a lot of Aries, but I think I'm probably quite loud and outgoing and passionate. Maybe a bit difficult or stubborn.

I used to get out there and have a thousand swing thoughts. Now I try not to have any.

If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.

We do not build or create a spiritual consciousness; we merely get rid of all that obscures our pure vision

The fight for the future of Texas is just beginning.

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

So What or Kind of Blue were done in that era, the right hour, the right day. It's over; it's on the record.

I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box.

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

If men found out how to give birth to children they'll never propose again.

Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

You can lose everything but you can't lose your talent!

Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.

We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.

I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.