"I like to make sure that I'm believable. If I don't believe me, then there's a lot of people that don't believe me, but if I can believe that I'm doing it, then I know the audience will, too."

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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

#Believe Quotes #People Quotes #Audience Quotes

“I find it quite difficult to analyze my own motives for things. I tend to go with a gut feeling in the moment.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.”
“If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligently at everything about it and the other things who lived here with us on it, and that we celebrated the beauty of it in music and art, architecture, literature, and dance, and that there were times when we approached something godlike in our abilities and aspirations. We emerged out of depthless mystery, and back into mystery we returned,and in the end the mystery is all there is.”
“Sometimes, in the dressing room, I think I am in Hollywood,”
“An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history.”

Source : Susan Abulhawa (2010). “Mornings in Jenin”, p.29, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance”

Source : Anna Funder (2011). “All That I Am”, p.111, Penguin UK
“Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was still shy offstage and unfortunately, my shyness and my inability to communicate and really have great conversations or be part of the gang - in inverted commas - led me to the drug addiction, which, you know, blighted my life for 16 years because I thought by doing that it would make me join in.”
“The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.”

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