"A lot of times you'll hear horror stories about actors being incredibly selfish and only wanting themselves to shine, but for me, it's not about just one person. It's about the whole team. That's the way I look at acting. That's the way I look at everything I do."

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Source : "Mekhi Phifer on Divergent, playing poker with Jeff Garlin, and dying on ER". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. August 25, 2014.

Mekhi Phifer

#Team Quotes #Selfish Quotes #Shining Quotes

“Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.”
“When done right, working is a series of decisions that you make which allow you to refine and refine and refine your highest and best use. Ultimately, if you are lucky, you will find out where you belong.”
“The Lord help me to press after God forever”
“I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?”
“If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.”
“For just once in my life, I'd like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who's got an attitude about the way I look.”

Source : Barbara Neely (2015). “Blanche Among the Talented Tenth: A Blanche White Mystery”, p.12, Brash Books, LLC
“Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?”
“Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain.”

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