Jo Bell Quotes

I don't feel that America has a black dude right now. I'm that dude.

I have a pretty fresh delivery. I feel that I am probably more of a dramatic actor, but I'm also a comedian. Every day I am polishing up my skills.

I love seeing the people that I have worked with reach new career heights.

I am inspired by the success of those that came to LA around the time that I started.

I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it.

I'm thankful for all of my opportunities. But I'm not trying to have a career where I am hanging on one of Dr. Drew's rehab shows. I can go home.

There is a lot that I will not do in Hollywood.

The money is not my mission.

My mantra is that I can go back home at anytime. I have a degree, I am smart, and I am honest. I care about my career and what I do, yet I know my lane and where I desire to go.

As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of harsh reality, and the realization that life can be funny.

My motto is: look your best, feel your best, but most of all, be your best at any age.

If something scares you, you run toward it, not away from it.

You have to control things, especially with the social media, because once it's out there, it's out there. And that becomes the fact.

Actors have to stay ready and be ready. They need to adjust things in their life, whether it be hair, teeth, take the time to do that.

If I could email my jokes to the crowd and get the same immediate response [as during stand-up], I'd do that.

Some things just strike me as funny. The way things play out just makes me laugh sometimes. It drives my wife crazy sometimes because I'll just be laughing for no reason.

I'm a dad, and that's really important to me, and I realize now that I'm a dad that it's a major part of my identity.

You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.

I think the need to go on stage speaks to some sort of a profound psychological deficit, but something that happened when you were a kid. Or something your parents did.

That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.

We gather knowledge faster than we gather wisdom.

When you're trying to love two, it sure ain't easy to do.

Friends die in war. It is easier to remember this before the war than after.

Humans sort of instinctively respond negatively to something that's not true.

In my career as a double, a lot of my job is to not just do the fights to make them look cool, but also to appear as the same person as the actor I am playing.

I love acting. And if there's a niche that needs filling, I'm happy to get in there and try to fill it.

My job has always been to not only make my character look like a badass but to also make the actor I am fighting opposite to be the character they need to be too.

When my physicality is involved, it's kind of my comfort zone, so I find it much easier to access emotions.

I would find it more difficult if somebody else was doing the action.

My job as a double was always to put [actors] at ease. My job was to make my character, or the actress that I was doubling, look as badass as possible by being there.

Whatever my job description consists of, becomes my job. Maybe it's just the way I tackle work, in general.

I had to paint the picture that I was never scared, otherwise I couldn't do my job. But now, as an actor, I'm literally paid to look emotionally accessible.

People are far more protective [of women] instinctively.

I've always appreciated great acting performances, but I've even learned to appreciate not so great ones 'cause it's hard.

I like the debate, but I don't really like the fight. I don't like being in the ring. I'm not competitive.

The thing that I come across is that people think that I might actually be super aggressive, want-to-fight type in real life. The irony is that that's just not true, at all.

I'm a poster child for feminism whether I like it or not, but I was resistant to the part of me that was a woman.

Mr. Watson — Come here — I want to se

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus

You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

Are you a communist?""No I am an anti-fascist""For a long time?""Since I have understood fascism.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun.And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone.

I obscenity in the milk of my shame.

Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

I have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.

I do not think it matters whether one agrees or not as long as ons is forced to think.