Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.
I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.
As you're growing up, it's odd, because directors don't expect you to grow up. They think you'll be young forever, but as an actor, there is an awkward period when you're too young for old or too old for young, and it can be an odd time.
Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'
He that does not bring up his son to some honest calling and employment, brings him up to be a thief.
I was a stand-up comedian for 10 years, if you can believe it. And I gave it up at age 22.
A start up messed up at the foundation cannot be fixed.
Stand-up is different from television. In stand-up, you've got to be in control.
I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
[from trailer] Tallahassee: Time to nut up or shut up!
You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
I do not understand people who will lustily throw $40,000 at the shiny red automobile of their choice, but well up with tears and become outraged when they are asked to pay $5 for a damaged videotape. Either they are fucked up and their priorities ar...
I was a swimmer growing up, which meant being in the pool at 5 A.M. You get used to it. You get up at 4:15 A.M.; my parents, who were amazing, they were up at 4:15 A.M. or earlier to drop me off at the pool and then go to work. I eventually stopped d...
NEVER GIVE UP No matter what is going on Never give up Develop the heart Too much energy in your country Is spent developing the mind Instead of the heart Be compassionate Not just to your friends But to everyone Be compassionate Work for peace In yo...
Freedonia's Secretary of War: How about taking up the tax? Rufus T. Firefly: How 'bout taking up the carpet? Freedonia's Secretary of War: I still insist we must take up the tax. Rufus T. Firefly: He's right, you've gotta take up the tacks before you...
[Willie goes to the front of the plane, and sees the cockpit is empty] Willie: Oh, no... oh, no... [Runs back and starts shaking Indy awake] Willie: Mister! Mister! Oh, Mister, wake up! Short Round: [waking up] You call him Dr. Jones, doll! Willie: O...
Stephen Stills: Oh god!... oh man! This is a nightmare! Is this a nightmare? Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up...! Scott Pilgrim: It's just nerves! Kim Pine: Once we're on stage, you'll be fine. Stephen Stills: We were just on stage for sound check,...
During my 20’s and 30’s at some point I started to think, “I have to give it up and I have to grow up.” But the truth is that I can never give it up and that’s another thing that I always tell people, especially young people: don’t even b...
Don't let your tongue or your paintbrush wag your tail when they are making up an inventory.
I clean up really well. I can get dolled up.
