H. T. Leslie Quotes

The way we value black beauty has changed. I'm single now, but back in the slave days, I would have never been single. I'm 6 feet tall and I'm strong. Look at me, I'm a Mandingo.

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent.

I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis.

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

The goal in any God-centered relationship should be to continually point the other person towards Christ, not continually draw attention towards you.

God cannot honor anything, no matter its degree of sincerity, if it is contrary to His Word.

"Sometimes" is sometimes "not never".

The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

Perfect people are the scariest people to me.

An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.

If, by the way I play, I can be a role model or encourage someone else, that would be great.

Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.

Obediance, when it flows out of genuine love for Jesus Christ, is never wasted and never regretted.

There's a lovely freedom of will when you approach a character that no one has really come across before, because it is your own interpretation.

I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

There is something that feels stagnant about having things you don't use or wear. But shoes are my thing. Shoes and scarves, I'm a big fan of the scarf.

That's the way it is: you have to show your initiative, you have to show talent and availability, and still have an awful lot of luck.

My childhood was not an episode from Downton Abbey

the snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.

I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.

Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

Time is one of our most valuable possessions. Use it wisely. Remind yourselves often that things that matter most should not be left to the mercy of things that matter the least.

Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

The reason they call if 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn’t know if this was empathy or theft.

You can't rush good wine. It has to sit. And when you finally drink it, it's the bomb. It's worth the wait.

People think I'm an overnight success. No. It's just that you all found me overnight.

I take care of everybody. I'm either hugging you or making sure that you're not sick, because my backpack has every kind of medicine in it.

The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.

Warren Beatty was one hell of a lover - but we fought like stray dogs

Evolution is smarter than you are.

The poet should touch our heart by showing his own

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking.

Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.

To feel the presence of the Lord is an amazing thing.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.

The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.

I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.

I liked Camille Paglia. I liked her even better when I heard her talk.