Lee Daniels quote: "I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face."

Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, ...
LEE DANIELS

I was always in trouble. I was mischievous. And movies were always a part of my world.
LEE DANIELS

I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre...
LEE DANIELS

Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the...
LEE DANIELS

I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, ...
LEE DANIELS

Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.
LEE DANIELS

I've had all types of beautiful girls tell me that they ugly when they look in the mirror, as if...
LEE DANIELS

I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.'
LEE DANIELS

As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV...
LEE DANIELS

I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life grow...
LEE DANIELS

I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclasti...
LEE DANIELS

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years...
LEE DANIELS

My partner, Danny Strong, came to me with this idea of telling a story about my life and merging tha...
LEE DANIELS

My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a barten...
LEE DANIELS

I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel...
LEE DANIELS

I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust.
LEE DANIELS

I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a...
LEE DANIELS

When you're paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like...
LEE DANIELS

My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' ...
LEE DANIELS

I drank from colored water fountains and from the white water fountain just to see what it was like ...
LEE DANIELS

When you have a lot of siblings, you always do something to feel special.
LEE DANIELS

Because this character is interracial and struggles with all sorts of issues because of that, I thou...
LEE DANIELS

I never saw 'Glitter,' but I liked her work in the other film. Because this character is interracial...
LEE DANIELS

When you're traveling, you can take it with you. You can use it for walking and I've done that many ...
LEE DANIELS

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to...
LEE DANIELS

If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I sta...
LEE DANIELS

When I was a kid doing television, they'd stick a leather jacket on me, and I would be the thug.
PHIL DANIELS

When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make ...
MITCH DANIELS

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
JOSEPHUS DANIELS

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our con...
VICTOR DANIELS

If our nation goes over a financial Niagara, we won't have much strength and, eventually, we won...
MITCH DANIELS

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and ...
MITCH DANIELS

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a ...
CHARLIE DANIELS

I wrote Steve Carell's last episode. I think it was a really good episode, but there's alway...
GREG DANIELS

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inver...
MITCH DANIELS

Acting is my passion, and Chelsea FC is my hobby.
PHIL DANIELS

The consequences that cause people to do their best every day occur every day. Delayed rewards are f...
AUBREY DANIELS

People complain their bosses never give them positive reinforcement, ... I say to them: 'If you thin...
AUBREY DANIELS

If you feel you aren't getting much recognition for your contribution, think of your boss, because y...
AUBREY DANIELS

The real problem with EOM is that one person's success creates another person's failure, and if the ...
AUBREY DANIELS

The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, ... but the only thing that makes what you do...
AUBREY DANIELS

You would look at the scoreboard, and they would score one, we would score one.
AMY DANIELS

Our leasing team works in conjunction with the property management team to find potential retail pro...
AMY DANIELS

We also like that it's the first Club Monaco in the Boston market, so it's not something that you'll...
AMY DANIELS

The central demographic is a forty-two year old woman with an average household income of about 90,0...
AMY DANIELS

Tim and the Spurs are going to the Virgin Islands. Tim said he had nothing to do with it. Yeah right...
ANTONIO DANIELS

We talked about staying loose. We were missing 30 points and nearly six assists. That's a big part o...
ANTONIO DANIELS

Some nights it's scoring, some nights it's not. Some nights it's defending. If everybody falls in an...
ANTONIO DANIELS

You always pull for the underdog, and Billy works extremely hard. He comes in early and gets shots, ...
ANTONIO DANIELS

You have so many all-stars, great players, who don't wear suits. Are you going to tell them that the...
ANTONIO DANIELS

I'm not here to average 30 points a game, ... That's not who I am, that's not what I'm about. I was ...
ANTONIO DANIELS

It took me getting to San Antonio, where I played with Avery Johnson, Mario Elie, Steve Kerr, Sean E...
ANTONIO DANIELS

No way, no how. There is no one more deserving to make the All-Star team than Gilbert Arenas.
ANTONIO DANIELS

That's a big chunk of who we are and what we do, but everybody else filled in the gaps. It was almos...
ANTONIO DANIELS

It will be a real defensive challenge for us because they both have a lot of offensive weapons, guys...
ANTONIO DANIELS

When that (incident) happened, it fired us up. Coach challenged us to play harder and we stepped it ...
ANTHONY DANIELS

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.
ANTHONY DANIELS

Listen to them, they're dying, R2. Curse my metal body. I wasn't fast enough. It's all my fault. My ...
ANTHONY DANIELS

We went up on rates, but as gas is increasing, I don't think it's doing any good, ... ... We can't s...
ANTHONY DANIELS

Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.
ANTHONY DANIELS

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.
JEFF DANIELS

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are...
MITCH DANIELS

I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.
ANTHONY DANIELS

In my game, you get brokenhearted a bit. You do a play, get a bad review in the papers... actors are...
PHIL DANIELS

If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental cha...
MITCH DANIELS

I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea a...
PHIL DANIELS

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that un...
MITCH DANIELS

The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we&...
CHARLIE DANIELS

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry ...
MITCH DANIELS

I've always wanted to be one of those actors who could change from character to character, like ...
KEVIN DANIELS

I would never advise anyone to stay in the closet to further their careers - I'm sure it leads t...
BEN DANIELS

We are very pleased to gain this opportunity to explore for oil and gas in Mozambique. Through our r...
BOB DANIELS

The town of Williamston is in a severe financial crisis bordering on collapse. In summary, if we do ...
BOB DANIELS

We are thrilled to add Blair to our program and he is a natural fit for us in 2006 as we were lookin...
BOB DANIELS

Five years ago, I wouldn't have had the courage to talk about my 'situation'. But thanks to ISFMWSLW...
BOB DANIELS

The Garrard Road house is the example that will be used to spread the idea statewide.
BOB DANIELS

Part of our problem was Northern; they played a dynamite game. But because of the sheer amount of ti...
BOB DANIELS

With a bounce here and there we could have gotten a tie or possibly a win. We obviously had our chan...
BOB DANIELS

Not only did he make big saves, He was really good about getting the puck to the corners. A lot of t...
BOB DANIELS

The public is increasingly disgusted with a steady diet of defamation, and prepared to reward those ...
MITCH DANIELS

The destroyer Cork, like the useful hero for whom it is named, will be game to the last.
JOSEPHUS DANIELS

I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fir...
JEFF DANIELS

My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna ...
PHIL DANIELS

Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on...
JEFF DANIELS

I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good acto...
JEFF DANIELS

When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mande...
PHIL DANIELS

This is not a ghost building that no one wants. This is a prime piece of real estate.
DARRELL DANIELS

Since windows are most vulnerable to break and let wind and rain in the building, we also have windo...
DANNY DANIELS

When somebody like Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan would come to town, I would do a session. I did a few ...
CHARLIE DANIELS

I played on three of Bob Dylan's albums. I have very pleasant memories, especially the Nashville Sky...
CHARLIE DANIELS

Finally, treat domestic energy production as the economic necessity it is and the job creator it can...
MITCH DANIELS

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy p...
MITCH DANIELS

Somebody will download an MP3 file, and we'll have this huge spike in (network usage) and everything...
DANNY DANIELS

Every two weeks, our music usage is doubling, ... At some point in time, this is going to present a ...
DANNY DANIELS

He knows me. I'm his teacher. I taught him everything he knows.
PHILLIP DANIELS

The student was actually walking away when he fired the shot. The witnesses felt he was scared as so...
PETER DANIELS

I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day, so instead, I play golf with other unemp...
PHIL DANIELS

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.
ANTHONY DANIELS

I had my idea of what the series finale of 'King of the Hill' would be, but that's not w...
GREG DANIELS

We can't be 100 percent sure, but it appears to be a very unique proposition.
LISA DANIELS

Otherwise, it's going to look like a new facility when you go in there this fall,
TOM DANIELS

Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats
JOSEPHUS DANIELS

When you think about 'The Simpsons' or 'King of the Hill' or something like that, th...
GREG DANIELS

Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indi...
JEFF DANIELS

We go into Spring Training and the season with catching as one of our strengths. With Rod, Gerald [L...
JON DANIELS

I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch ...
BEN DANIELS

Before the building was repaired, we took additional precautions by bringing in an environmental rem...
DANNY DANIELS

We expect him to be a member of the club moving forward this season and next.
JON DANIELS

It has gone from utterly nothing to something we have written articles on and commercial producers a...
RAY DANIELS

at an extremely heightened level, every particular word used in the statement, including the tense o...
GEORGE DANIELS

We never envisioned this much stuff. I'm overwhelmed by the support out there for the troops, ... on...
CHARLIE DANIELS

It's almost like slowly but surely everything is becoming controlled. What's next? Do you have to we...
ANTONIO DANIELS

We anticipate a full recovery.
JON DANIELS

Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.
JEFF DANIELS

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful a...
ANTHONY DANIELS

You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by t...
ANTHONY DANIELS

Researching Magic Johnson, I realized I clearly haven't done enough with my life.
KEVIN DANIELS

That's the way I play, ... I like to push the ball and attack the rim and put as much pressure on th...
ANTONIO DANIELS

It's early, but I really like this team, ... What you see is a bunch of professionals going out ther...
ANTONIO DANIELS

As far as where I fit in the back court, that's not for me to answer. My play will have to decide th...
ANTONIO DANIELS

The biggest thing, number one, was the style of play,
ANTONIO DANIELS

It's been an exciting week in a lot of ways, but I haven't been getting much sleep, ... I'll do some...
ANTONIO DANIELS

This team is already a good basketball team. They don't have to adjust to me; I have to adjust to th...
ANTONIO DANIELS

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school fo...
MITCH DANIELS

When you open a building, you incur all those budgetary concerns, and if we close the building, we d...
JUDY DANIELS

We tried to come into the second game more focused, and with more intensity. I told the girls we nee...
JACK DANIELS

I just don't know yet, ... I'll probably just flip a coin before I go to bed. ... They both had a gr...
JACK DANIELS

I think they need to look for alternative funds, ... It's up to the commission to decide how the mon...
JACK DANIELS

It was huge because we were just trying to kill some time off and maybe pin them back. With Palm Bea...
JACK DANIELS

It makes calling the plays pretty easy.
JACK DANIELS

Prom night is like the baby-making night of the year.
CHRIS DANIELS

Bob is one of the most astute businesspeople I know,
RICK DANIELS

He's a fiery competitor. He's not afraid.
JON DANIELS

She nodded her head approvingly, ... I was a little surprised.
JON DANIELS

I saw David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I fo...
BEN DANIELS

Let me say here, with clarity and with purpose, I concede nothing to the Democratic Party. I will st...
RANDY DANIELS

If he is a subject of an investigation, that is a major problem for Republicans in New York, and he ...
RANDY DANIELS

I hope it's not true. Because I think he's a good man.
RANDY DANIELS

This is a guy who has never been hit. The rest of us knows what it's like. He's led a charmed life a...
RANDY DANIELS

I would bet the farm on it because I know what is happening on the ground.
RANDY DANIELS

We've certainly had enough innings where we've helped people out. So maybe it's about time we took a...
RANDY DANIELS

We do have a couple of World War II tanks and other vehicles we can trace to a war, but this will be...
CHAD DANIELS

We were in it all the way to the end. It just came down to some crucial plays at the end. It's been ...
ANTONIO DANIELS

I'm a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn't be cut, because I had no experience oth...
BEN DANIELS

A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social ...
JOSEPHUS DANIELS

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventin...
PAUL DANIELS

We've tended to be passive and reactive when it comes to recruiting companies. We've got to start be...
RICK DANIELS

Oakland has really improved itself, Seattle has improved itself and Anaheim has a ton of young playe...
JON DANIELS

I will never provide you hoes with entertainment, I'll just sit back and watch as you make a fool ou...
RICHARD DANIELS

His wife is just the sweetest person, just about the nicest person you every met, ... She has that s...
MIKE DANIELS

can still sit on a park bench in a playground all day.
CHRIS DANIELS

It's been a long day,
CHRIS DANIELS

Obviously, this is a tragedy, ... This is one of those things that snaps everybody back into focus a...
CHRIS DANIELS

If it was raining outside and I was wearing makeup and needed a touchup, I would never go into a men...
CHRIS DANIELS

It's awesome. It's neat to be able to see your community on such an icon of a game.
CHRIS DANIELS

I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that a...
JEFF DANIELS

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.
JOSEPHUS DANIELS

I'm tremendously excited that Chancellor Harris could come here. I think he is going to bring great ...
MITCH DANIELS

The sense of urgency is always there. Whether we made 20 moves or one, Buck will have these guys pre...
JON DANIELS

He is the highlight of many late-afternoon casual conversations in the clubhouse.
JON DANIELS

We played everything from "White Sports Coat" to Bill Haley and the Comets - whatever happened to be...
CHARLIE DANIELS

We can no more blame it on good Middle Eastern citizens than we can blame Hitler on people of German...
CHARLIE DANIELS

I just feel such freedom to do whatever. If a song's seven minutes or ten minutes long, then so be i...
CHARLIE DANIELS

Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with your life - to...
CHARLIE DANIELS

I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend o...
CHARLIE DANIELS

I just thank God I can make a living doing something I enjoy as much as I do playing music.
CHARLIE DANIELS

When the bell rang the pupils lined up outside their classrooms. Dane left the line as the teacher w...
EUGENE DANIELS

ISPs are wise to improve spam filtering, and ensure that permission emails are not erroneously marke...
DAVID DANIELS

I think we have focused on the middle-class actor who has needed some relief and help to be able to ...
WILLIAM DANIELS

And overhanging all our difficulties is the simple, brute fact that our state's public finances are ...
MITCH DANIELS

If he just means for gays and lesbians to just be there and be quiet, that won't happen,
RAY DANIELS

Those are not particularly the ones we're looking at here, but we have to be careful with duplicatio...
MITCH DANIELS

The state of our state needs serious attention.
MITCH DANIELS

We stand to gain up to several thousand more jobs at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service cent...
MITCH DANIELS

I think that the Board of Education ought to revisit this issue,
MITCH DANIELS

You have to see a new world, before you can play in it!!
THOMAS DANIELS

You could hear the gusts coming before you felt them and the trees popping like a series of firecrac...
DANNY DANIELS

We're gonna hunt you down like a mad dog hound and make you pay for the lives you stole,
CHARLIE DANIELS

I like being up a little before everybody and lighting the campfire. And my husband cooks.
CHRIS DANIELS

Strange things happen in this game. There were a lot of things going on, and we let them hang around...
MARQUIS DANIELS

My next project will be a Christian album, another one. I wrote the songs for the ones you're referr...
CHARLIE DANIELS

Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country...
CHARLIE DANIELS

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.
JONATHAN DANIELS

Take bananas -- 25 percent of Chiquita bananas come through New Orleans,
JONATHAN DANIELS

Perhaps I was being picky, but I really didn’t think being able to spell orgasm without being spot...
SUMMER DANIELS

The Eaton injury changed the dynamics of what we were working with.
JON DANIELS

incredible devastation next to apparently unscathed properties.
MITCH DANIELS

The thing about Billy is that he knows what his role is and he doesn't try to do anything outside of...
ANTONIO DANIELS

The funny thing is, the music that I'm writing now is probably some of the most cutting edge we've e...
CHARLIE DANIELS

It's impossible to know how many people we don't catch. The rule of thumb is that there isn't a rule...
ROB DANIELS

You get a specific group of people that are just looking to fix their homes. We usually get about tw...
ROB DANIELS

He wasn't the easiest to coach because he can get kind of grumpy if he makes a mistake, but he's a n...
JACK DANIELS

A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know w...
CHARLIE DANIELS

And there's always that unspoken CBS factor lurking in the air of the hotel suite.
ROB DANIELS

You grow up quick when you're a kid from Queens, riding the subway by yourself, ... You see things. ...
JON DANIELS

is as integrated and interdependent as it has ever been.
MITCH DANIELS

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chan...
CHARLIE DANIELS

I am not unduly worried about the sale, and we are comfortable with the stock.
MARK DANIELS

There's a missing 'r' in the critical word 'pantry,' ... I feel it essential to confront this error ...
MITCH DANIELS

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out o...
MITCH DANIELS

I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face.

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I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face.

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