Wendell Pierce famous quotes

04-17-2025

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Art #Community #Individual
Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. Its how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Disappointment #Love Life #People
At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Class #Voice #Tunes
Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Men #People #Like You
I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Practice #Two #Littles
I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Two #Track #Guy
It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Tv Shows #People #Fans
One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Real #Men #Cities
The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Loyalty #Sports #Memories
A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Cat #New Orleans #Play
We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Mad #Trying #Answers
The Wire' really is an American classic, and I think that's something to be very proud of.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Thinking #Wire #Proud
The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Roles #Who We Are #Culture
The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Sports #Team #Community
I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Years #San Francisco #Baltimore
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Self #True Self #Consequence
And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Art #Journey #People
New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.
-- Wendell Pierce

#New Orleans #Culture #Birth
What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.
-- Wendell Pierce

#Art #Community #Gone

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