Terrence Howard Quotes
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It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life.
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My life's experiences, I've always had, my uncle used to call it antenna. I know what's going to happen oftentimes before it happened when it's involving me
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There's no excuse to hit a woman... Ever. Not even in a movie role, because you might really like it. And then what?
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I'm trying to make enough money where I can be financially independent and be able to go and just pursue that thing that everybody really needs, just pursue my family and the cause of my family
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Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind
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The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.
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I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.
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I knew that one movie could either kill my career or give birth to it. It's the same thing with Nelson. If you fail at Nelson [movie about nelson Mandela], you don't get to comeback and say, 'Well, I was trying. Let me do it again.' There are no re-takes.
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Dating black women will ruin your life
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All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.
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If you're not going to do your job, get out of here. Don't mess up my work. This is how I feed my family.
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They say everybody gets 15 minutes. I hope I'm just inside the first minute and the next 14 go really slow.
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We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children.
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But George Lucas is carrying about Black actors, about Black men, about Black history, which really incorporates and tells all of history. You can't take one race out without eliminating every other race if you're going to tell the story of the human race.
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You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done.
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The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this.
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And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.
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In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics. If this is our roots, how can you blame the branches for following the course of the roots.
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The most important thing I can teach my kids is that you can't put your value in looks. Presence is based upon magnitude. You can pretend to have an air about you but it is quickly deflated, you cannot deflate presence. Presence walks into a room and surrounds and fills anything that's in that room without trying to demand it, it takes over. It can come from a smile. Like I said, love makes you beautiful. What is beautiful radiates.
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Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it's like something you dreamed earlier
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I don't believe in premarital sex. It enabled me to date three or four women at the same time, because as long as I wasn't having sex with them, I could always just walk away.
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I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can
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When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.
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Having gandchildren you see the world through much broader perspectives. And you're more aware of your actions your thoughts and how it will affect your family. And the families around your family. You have to be a lot more careful. But you also relax a little bit. Because, you know, you've done your duty. I've reproduced and my reproductions have reproduced.
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If evolution works, why are monkeys still around?
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The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your dark room, you dream and wait for it.
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If a relationship is built on sexuality, it won't last long.
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As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm
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I'm damn near 37 years old, and I'm jumping up and down on the bed like my 10-year-old. I was a wild man
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I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power
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