Ru Freeman Quotes

I want to be up there, being lauded and applauded and given all these and on the red carpet, waving at the hordes of people.

Someone's going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it's nothing.

I would never complain that Hollywood is racist when I'm one of the people touted as a welcome entity there.

We are turning everything on this planet into food for humans. We'll eat it and, if we can't eat it, we'll kill it and take its place and just move it out of the way.

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

I've travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American.

I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe.

My job, personally, is to do as much as I can to spread the warning that if we're not careful, it will end. The problem is, we don't think beyond our immediate needs.

When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I'd get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready.

From early childhood, my thrust was to get into the movies.

That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants.

Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty

Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.

My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life.

Growing up in Mississippi, I realized that it was separate and unequal and all that, but it was still a safe place.

I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife.

I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.

There are other sources, but Wikipedia is a good start.

I was interested in writing something that has meaning in the larger context of global conflicts anywhere.

War defined my entire childhood and youth and most of my adulthood too - and in the US, it continues to do so.

I think a lot, so I don't spend a lot of time actually writing - I do that part very quickly. That helps, for me. To keep track of the characters.

My life is very busy with a lot of things, and so I don't get uninterrupted time. When I do, I can just write all day.

Fiona McCrae is a really amazing editor. Really smart and very astute about what a story needs.

Every new thing is a result of everything you wrote before.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.

my first recommendation to people in charge of science education is, more money for public libraries and museums. Public libraries and museums ought to be as common as schools.

When we look ahead to 2018, we should expect big steps forward in science to come once again from changes in style rather than from marginal improvements in technology.

The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.

For if people could see- if women especially could see- what is real and true and how the elegant possession of what is in each of our individual hearts is what matters more than anything.

Sometimes that's what prayer is--simply inviting God to join us where we actually are, not because He isn't already here but because inviting Him reminds us it's true.

Rejoice and thank God in the midst of your storms. For those people who have been through hell and back but continue to have smiles on their faces, they are the examples of God’s grace and mercy

Live each day with the very best of expectations.

You were meant to go through the pain not live in pain

Forgiving yourself and others gives your spirit freedom

Do not allow the negative experiences of your past to block your future blessings

Family does not mean people with the same last name or the same DNA. It means people who care about you, who you trust, who you care about--people you can count on.

I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.

Use your wisdom and life’s lessons to take you higher. Give yourself no other choices but to move forward and to succeed.

Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it.

Reality is only for people with no imagination.

If you are unhappy about something change it.Choose what you want in life, create your plan to get it, put your plan into action and follow through with persistence.

True belief is movement toward God even in the midst of confusion or frustration or fear.

But understand that the reason it is so difficult to extend forgiveness to those who have failed us is because we are unable to receive forgiveness for our own failures.

Actually Grandad Christmas is a pagan holiday and Jesus probably hates you for celebrating it.

Kindness is all we have to give others

You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.

I’m perfectly alone right now, my mind is on overdrive, the gears are grinding in whirring dissonance – and it’s just how I like it.

Through my pain and sorrow, God has prepared me to share His word with others in a way that was made just for me.