E. A. Davis Quotes

I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.

I never thought I'd be a role model at this age. I just have to be myself.

To be honest, I never thought I'd be famous for baseball. I want to play basketball, and I could also do both basketball and baseball - but I really want to play basketball.

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

It was part of your religion to hate the British.

What I admire most in men - To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it

I thought LeBron James was just going to be another addition to help me score

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.

I’m already happy with who I am. My job is just to get on the podium.

He slipped his hands around my waist and pulled me against him, tossing the ice cream cone over his shoulder. It landed with a splat on the sidewalk. 'So does that mean I have a varsity girlfriend?'

We must also recognize the new realities of modern warfare and the modern landscape of a battlefield.

May God have mercy on your souls. May God bless your souls.

When it comes to performance art, I am more interested in the failures then the so-called successes. I have never cared for entertaining anyone.

My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose.

I think the Democrat Party is taking its cue from the media. When the media has a narrative, whether it's the use of profanity, the Democratic Party follows it.

If I talk to rural people where I live - mostly Hispanic but also poor white - they're not sympathetic to the Black Lives Matter movement.

A Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, George Soros, or Al Gore looks - no, acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream.

And "classically not beautiful" is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.

I would love to star in a remake of Thelma and Louise. Yep, that's the one I'd be interested in redoing.

I am the mother of a 6-year-old now, so that's changed my entire perspective.

Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.

I really wanted to show [in "fences"] a marriage that is working. Not perfect, but working.

That is a huge need for a lot of women, even in 2016. You can have the most ambitious career woman, and at the end of the day, she's like, 'I just want to be a mom.

I have been given a lot of roles that are downtrodden, mammy-ish.

I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway... I've seen the unemployment line a lot.

Change is no threat to culture.

There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

I had a very pleasant three years at Yale. I must say I did take it seriously, and consequently it took me a while to get over it.

Tobacco farmers would say, "Look, I'm just trying to make a living and feed my family." Nevertheless, tobacco is incredibly harmful and kills people.

I can talk for a long time only when it's about something boring.

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world.

Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can.

I think the more aggressive I am on defense helps me to get easier buckets and get in a good grove.

Old age ain't for sissies

If you draw your sword against those you sworn to protect, the very ones who trust in your strength, how will you convince them that you are a shield when the dragons come and take them away?

It takes no guts to be skeptical, it takes guts to believe.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

Socially, it is funny. People are annoyed because, really who is a clown?.

Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?

But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.

What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.

Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.

What comes with a job as a staff member of the BBC is a certain self-censoring that you get utterly used to. You don't say everything you think. You hold back on some things.