Derek Luke Quotes and Sayings
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I had a lot of fun with Val Kilmer.
He's like a big kid.
- Derek Luke

He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter;
everybody he calls on to help him is busy,
but lo and behold, you look across the room,
and I'm waiting for that action.
- Derek Luke

Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith.
You have all the action in your head and you have to
believe in it and just do it.
That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.
- Derek Luke

It's a story about victory that will touch the lives
of everyone who watches it.
It's powerful.
- Derek Luke

I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City.
And I was literally holding a shirt when they came
in and told me I'd got the part!
It just shows dreams do come true.
- Derek Luke

Oh, my God!
My wife and I, boy, we got down that night.
On a personal note!
- Derek Luke

I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first but it didn't work.
And then I just let the spirit of the character grow
in me and it just took its rightful place.
I started to speak the lines and it felt right.
- Derek Luke

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Then I was working in a store in Newark,
New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person,
and I got so excited.
My whole day changed.
That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.
- Derek Luke

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could,
and I ended up failing.
So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid,
I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.
- Derek Luke

Denzel Washington invoked confidence.
When you have confidence, you can do anything.
And that's what happened.
I learned about being honest and keeping it true,
keeping it true in my performance.
- Derek Luke

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me.
I needed hope myself at that time.
I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.
- Derek Luke

I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation.
I believe this is one of the movies that hits home
for all colors and all races.
Everybody I talk to, black or white,
suburban,
rich or poor, can relate to rejection,
can relate to not having a father or a mother.
- Derek Luke

I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

I tried to remember how to exhale.
I had to look away before it came back to me.
- Bella, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
If we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
prosperity would not be so welcome.
- Anne Bradstreet

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I had no sense of humor,
I would long ago have committed suicide.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart,
it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Touch me in the morning
Then just walk away
We don't have tomorrow
But we had yesterday
- Ron Miller/Michael Masser

As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Civilization had too many rules for me,
so I did my best to rewrite them.
- Bill Cosby

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
- Margaret Thatcher

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree,
I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
- Abraham Lincoln

What work I have done I have done because it has been play.
If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.
- Mark Twain

I do not fear death.
I had been dead for billions and billions
of years before I was born,
and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
- Mark Twain

We thought that we had the answers,
it was the questions we had wrong.
- Bono

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

I had three chairs in my house;
one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
- Henry David Thoreau

I have lost my seven best friends,
which is to say that God has had mercy on me
seven times without realizing it.
He lent a friendship, took it from me, and sent me another.
- Jean Cocteau

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children
is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia:
it seemed like a good idea at the time.
- Bill Cosby

I never had a policy;
I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
- Abraham Lincoln

A person isn't who they are during
the last conversation you had with them -
they're who they've been
throughout your whole relationship.
- Rainer Maria Rilke

Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans

The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation,
man would still be a beast in the forest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have found that hollow,
which even I had relied on for solid.
- Henry David Thoreau

Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

My father and he had one of those English friendships
which begins by avoiding the intimacies
and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
- Jorge Luis Borges

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had
because they didn't have the talent
or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
- Nelson Mandela

If i had known... i would have lingered
over my coffee a little longer.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Essentially all suffering is the result of...
1. Comparing what we have (or don't have) today
... with what we had yesterday.
2. Comparing what we fear we might have (or not have) tomorrow)
... with what we have today.
3. Comparing what we have (or don't have) with what others have.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I

I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead

I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares.
I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
- Jonas Salk

I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau

You know the only people who are always sure about
the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
- Bill Cosby

The soul would have no rainbow,
Had the eyes no tears.
- John Vance Cheney

I am certainly not an authority on love because there
are no authorities on love,
just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
- Bill Cosby

I had forgotten how much light there is in the world,
'til you gave it back to me.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on.
I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me,
all wearing masks of my face.
- Stephen Hopkins

If I had no family, my wife and I would lead a much
more romantic and nomadic existence.
- David McCallum

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme
experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

I recognize that the person I was in my past
is not the person I am today.
That person did the very best they could,
given the knowledge, emotions, and prior experience
they had to draw upon at the time.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

And to get real work experience, you need a job,
and most jobs will require you to have had either real
work experience or a graduate degree.
- Donald Norman

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with,
but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
- John Foster Dulles

My father...
had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
- Chief Joseph

I had to stop driving my car for a while...
the tires got dizzy.
- Steven Wright

I don't think my wife likes me very much,
when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.
- Frank Carson

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.
- Tom Ford

Think where mans glory most begins and ends,
and say my glory was I had such friends.
- William Butler Yeats

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely
to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
- Carolyn Heilbrun

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had
known what was hidden within him,
he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
- Khalil Gibran

That's what learning is, after all;
not whether we lose the game,
but how we lose and h
ow we've changed because of it
and what we take away from it
that we never had before,
to apply to other games.
Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
- Richard Bach

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May the world be kind to you,
and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie