O'Shea Jackson, Jr. famous quotes

My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession.
-- O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

#Mother #Father #Honor

My whole thing was this was to immortalize my family's name. To get the people who never would have appreciated him to appreciate him, there's nothing a son could want more.
-- O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

#Son #Names #People

Anything in the entertainment business, there's sharks coming around. It's about staying true to yourself and making sure that, when you look in the mirror, you're happy with what you see.
-- O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

#Mirrors #Sharks #Looks

I always thought I was going to be on the other side of the camera. That's where I found myself. I found out that I could write when I was 17, right before you go to college, so it was a passion of mine.
-- O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

#Passion #Writing #College

As an artist, I didn't think I was gonna get an Oscar. I've never said this, but I've never looked at it like, "We're gonna win Best Supporting Actor."
-- O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

#Artist #Winning #Thinking

Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.

I feel betrayed by own mother.

When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful-Only wait.

Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.

[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.

If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen.

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

Honor is better than honors.

Honor modesty more than your life.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.