M. Jackson Quotes

How do you know when you're finished making love?

My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.

I think you always take away a little bit of a character with you, and it kinda like hangs on you for a bit, and then as time kind of goes and wears off a little bit.

Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have 200 characters that we portray with different people.

Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

I feel that when two people are married - not that you have to totally give up your career - you have to spend time with one another, get to know each other more, just share things with each other.

I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.

All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.

Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.

You know, people'd always ask "Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?" They never seen the house I'm running from.

I want to cut his nuts off.

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities.

I'm never going to let nobody take those kids. They Michael's kids. They have no right to try to take those kids. It's going to be a big mess over that.

The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.

I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.

Not judging people is the fastest way to peace.

Gratitude is the root of joy.

William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet. Tonight he has made chemistry into magic for her.

I would take today's joy, and tomorrow's. I would take it with both hands, anywhere it came.

Being in love also means learning not to say anything until she's had coffee.

The hardest thing to walk away from, over a long-form TV show, is the comradery of the company, both with the crew and the group of actors.

Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you dream of them in a different way than I do.

As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.

As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.

Cats hate a closed door, you know, regardless of which side they're on. If they're out, they want to get in, and if they're in, they want to get out.

Cats don't fight for their rights; they take them for granted. They have a right to be fed, watered, stroked on demand and supplied with a lap and a clean commode

Reading my personal accountI believe you feel-you-will know that the Holocaust was neither a legend nor Hollywood fiction but a lesson for the future!

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

Never ask for 'a beer.'

Yet, instead of loving our children more, we install metal detectors in our schools.

When you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world to [look away].

So I'm leaving Sony, a free agent, owning half of Sony. I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're very angry at me, because I just did good business, you know.

I believe I'm one of the loneliest people in the world.

Have you seen my childhood? I'm searching for the world that I came from cause I've been looking around in the lost and found of my heart.

Jason Randal is without a doubt the finest in the world at what he does!

"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."

The purpose of parenting is to provide steady and wide-ranging opportunities for a child. The child does the rest.

You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.

The Oscars are not something I watch anyway.

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance.

As a filmmaker, you are going to manipulate the character as you need to make the scenes work.

The director has to win, because you should never force a director to shoot something they don't believe in.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when people try and attach me to big projects.

I think there's still a little bit of that 9 year-old in me and I'm pretty happy.

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

I just got to the point where I literally didn't want anyone else to do it.

The music in a film like this is as critical as anything because Kong is mute. He doesn't talk.