Jo Jordan Quotes

The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.

I am working never to be late again.

It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.

What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

Sometimes we become so sophisticated we have to read the New York Times in order to figure out whether it's a hot or a rainy day.

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

It is a reality. People are being victimized or are being targeted to be victims each and every day.

I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film and those establishment figures on the East Coast.

I'm very encouraged. This is progress. There are two or three ways to combat homophobia - one is through humor. The second is to put a face on it. People are becoming much more enlightened.

I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.

We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays.

It is said that the offender never forgives. Certainly it is quite explicitly hard for the one in the wrong to do so. And it takes more spiritual asset than continued alcohol often leaves.

An ounce of help is worth more than a pound of pity any day.

Your true cosmopolitan is born, not made. He is very rare.

I think it's just easier for people to put you in a box or a lane because you look similar. I think that's unfair for anybody in any situation.

Now if I cry on screen I think it's mint. Because I think that's how that person would feel at that time. And if it doesn't, then it just doesn't happen.

In terms of experience with the police, everybody got those. It's such a reality.

That's probably why my face was looking so crazy when I was crying [in "Hardball"] because it was some real.

I can't sing worth a lick, so I don't know if I would be allowed in the ["The Mickey Mouse Club"].

Honestly, I'm a firm believer in the next generation of filmmakers. It's very important to keep things fresh, new, current. They have a pulse on what's important today.

Working with [Kyle Chandler] in the scene was like playing tennis. You work with really talented actors, I think they make other actors look really, really good.

We were shooting this movie called "Hardball," with Keanu Reeves. We shot in the city, and I just remember I couldn't really do too much. At 13 or 14, you couldn't go out to any nightlife.

As an actor, you never want to feel like a tool. You never want to feel like, "Hey, just come here, say this, stop here, look this way," and that's it. You want to have a little input.

In many ways for black actors there's been two leading guys: It's Will Smith vs. Denzel [Washington].

I think every guy that's dated a girl or hasn't been straightaway into a relationship has had that 'so...' moment where a girl is like, 'Hey what are you doing?'

[Ryan Gosling] just got by because he's a cute kid? Yeah. I was an ugly kid; "The Mickey Mouse Club" wasn't for me.

[Chris Evans] is doing an amazing job with "Captain America." I really enjoy those films as well so that's kind of pretty much where that was.

The douchiest thing a guy could do on a date is to make a girl pay. If you invite her out and then make her pay.

I want to look at my audience and see all walks of life. I want to do something for everybody.

I don't like speaking on things that I don't care about and that I'm not personally invested in.

Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].

Creating the opportunities for other people and solid projects, things that I like, for sure, definitely. Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce as well.

If somebody comes up and they're African American as Mike is, and they're extremely talented as Mike is, they say, "Oh, yeah, he's the next ..." I think that it points to disparity.

[Kyle Chandler]definitely helped me out a lot, stepped up my game. Just like the volleying back and forth.

For me, with me, making a film is always about humanity.

Start producing, some writing, directing is definitely what I want to do and I'll be doing a lot more in the future as well.

I think Chris [Evans] has got Captain America locked up. The role is in good hands.

What I was interested in [Fruitvale Station ] was one guy and his life and how that related to all of our lives and the fact that it ended unnecessarily and what the fallout from that was.

I've been living with that all my life. My name is Michael Jordan, so I'm always being compared to a person of greatness.

Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

I want people to leave the theater and think, "How can I be a better person?" That's the only way things are going to improve.

I like the old '90s music.

I was born with rhythm but I don't know if - I'm not a break dancer.

My mother's in my life, but at the time you imagine your mom passing away, not being there ... as a kid you try to think of something that hurts you the most ... It was just a tool [in "Hardball"].

Johnny Storm is such an iconic character. There's a lot of personality traits and things to him that people are really going to look forward to seeing.

You substitute certain things from your own personal life to get you to that mental place and that emotional state. At that time [Brian Robbins] went for the home run, the grand slam [in "Hardball"].

As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want to direct.

I was born and raised in the Bay Area. It's the place I got a deep, deep affection for.