Dennis Haysbert quote: "The fact that I'm an African-American man as a lead, it really doesn't surprise me at all because I've never seen myself as a victim or any of those things. I just thought that when I wasn't a lead before, it was just shortsighted."

I love emotion. I love being in love. And showing that on screen. I think it's wonderful.
DENNIS HAYSBERT

I played a little basketball, but basketball interfered with theater season. That's when we did ...
DENNIS HAYSBERT

He is a man of great personal power, honor and honesty. I saw in him a really good man who would mak...
DENNIS HAYSBERT

I didn't think Palmer should have been killed at all. I didn't like the message that it sent. There ...
DENNIS HAYSBERT

At every turn, for better or for worse, the producers sought to destroy these relationships [that Ba...
DENNIS HAYSBERT

There is definitely a certain cadence to David's work. You'll see his fingerprints all over the scri...
DENNIS HAYSBERT

Success has come late in my life, but it feels right for me now. And better to come late than never.
DENNIS HAYSBERT

There is definitely a certain cadence to David's work. And as you see more of the episodes, you'll s...
DENNIS HAYSBERT

I think that (my character) President David Palmer was the voice of conscience on that series, and i...
DENNIS HAYSBERT

Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know...
FELIX DENNIS

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like....
DENNIS PRAGER

What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. ...
DENNIS QUAID

I've done three Broadway shows; once the curtain goes up, that's it. I mean, you prepare and...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend ...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER

I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show wa...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER

The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or any...
DENNIS WILSON

Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got g...
DENNIS WILSON

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.
DENNIS ECKERSLEY

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
DENNIS PRAGER

One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. ...
DENNIS HASTERT

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
DENNIS RODMAN

Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a camera...
DENNIS MUREN

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
DENNIS RODMAN

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
DENNIS POTTER

I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit b...
DENNIS QUAID

There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burn...
FELIX DENNIS

I always want to find the best burger in town.
DENNIS QUAID

'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society...
FELIX DENNIS

The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
FELIX DENNIS

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I&#...
FELIX DENNIS

You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
FELIX DENNIS

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
FELIX DENNIS

The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
FELIX DENNIS

You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you ...
FELIX DENNIS

I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wra...
FELIX DENNIS

Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind th...
FELIX DENNIS

The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.
FELIX DENNIS

There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
FELIX DENNIS

Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
FELIX DENNIS

America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic,...
FELIX DENNIS

Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how c...
FELIX DENNIS

Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them...
FELIX DENNIS

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive...
FELIX DENNIS

It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
FELIX DENNIS

You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care...
FELIX DENNIS

I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on m...
DENNIS QUAID

When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or Joh...
DENNIS FARINA

Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leav...
DENNIS MILLER

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
DENNIS QUAID

To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
DENNIS WEAVER

It was an awesome place to play and I made a lot of friends here.
ADAM DENNIS

A few times I wanted to leave my net to move the puck up but I wasn't sure where it was coming from,...
ADAM DENNIS

You can't really change anything game to game so you just try to go in relaxed.
ADAM DENNIS

No, my superstition might be not having any. Come playoff time, you like to get into routines, but t...
ADAM DENNIS

From the start of the year, 40 wins was a goal of mine and it just happened that 41 was the league r...
ADAM DENNIS

That wasn't a friendly thing. He shot the puck down the ice at me so I fired it back.
ADAM DENNIS

I didn't play very well. He's a good goalie and deserved a chance to play. I just feel like I let th...
ADAM DENNIS

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your ...
DENNIS RAINEY

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second...
DENNIS MILLER

The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
DENNIS MILLER

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
DENNIS GREEN

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a ...
DENNIS WHOLEY

There's something ugly about the flawless.
DENNIS LEHANE

See, I can talk to the pretty man like a real grown up if I try hard enough.
DENNIS SHARPE

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in ...
DENNIS FRAKES

Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.
PATRICK DENNIS

Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
DENNIS RODMAN

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
JOHN DENNIS

You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mex...
DENNIS HOPPER

There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and fin...
EVERETTE DENNIS

For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to ...
DENNIS FRANZ

Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftis...
DENNIS ALTMAN

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over t...
DENNIS CONNER

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society w...
DENNIS PRAGER

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the ...
DENNIS PRAGER

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
DENNIS PRAGER

One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's ...
DENNIS PRAGER

Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance ha...
DENNIS PRAGER

My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in mo...
DENNIS PRAGER

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, Geo...
DENNIS MILLER

Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in ...
DENNIS FAKES

Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
DENNIS PRAGER

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometim...
DENNIS PRAGER

In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and th...
DENNIS PRAGER

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionat...
DENNIS PRAGER

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than...
DENNIS PRAGER

Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secular...
DENNIS PRAGER

See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder.
JOHN DENNIS

Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder for someone else
DENNIS WOLFBERG

Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small ...
DENNIS PRAGER

I'm not getting involved in sports anymore, except on film. I'm not agile unless a camera...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER

I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and ...
DENNIS FRANZ

Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.
DENNIS ROSS

Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important an...
DENNIS PRAGER

The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, th...
DENNIS PRAGER

For the Left, affluence is won, not earned.
DENNIS PRAGER

Once enough Americans reacquaint themselves with Americanism, we should promote it to all countries ...
DENNIS PRAGER

My buddies are like, 'You live the most amazing life!' Well, I'm working like a dog. I c...
DENNIS CROWLEY

Since neither black animosity nor the Left's falsehood of 'racial tensions' is based on ...
DENNIS PRAGER

Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whit...
DENNIS PRAGER

I have never written that there is a threat of fascism in America. I always considered the idea over...
DENNIS PRAGER

We owe our troops more than rhetoric; we owe them a real plan. The Administration has yet to put for...
DENNIS CARDOZA

Our two biggest rivals had adjusted their whole season to this one aim of beating us. Of course, it ...
DENNIS BERGKAMP

I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the...
FELIX DENNIS

When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses.
DENNIS WEAVER

What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?
FELIX DENNIS

There have been huge Muslim demonstrations against cartoons depicting Muhammad and any other perceiv...
DENNIS PRAGER

I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas.
DENNIS RODMAN

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.
DENNIS MILLER

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
DENNIS GABOR

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is ...
DENNIS PRAGER

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
FELIX DENNIS

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism r...
DENNIS PRAGER

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the unive...
DENNIS PRAGER

With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core val...
DENNIS PRAGER

Corruption is Africa's greatest problem. Not poverty. Not lack of riches. Not racism.
DENNIS PRAGER

There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberal...
DENNIS PRAGER

In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view ...
DENNIS PRAGER

When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism ...
DENNIS PRAGER

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why huma...
DENNIS PRAGER

The essence of the Hebrew Bible, transmitted by Christianity, is separation: between life and death,...
DENNIS PRAGER

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude...
DENNIS PRAGER

Hamas is a terrorist organization dedicated to annihilating the Jewish state. It runs a theocratic t...
DENNIS PRAGER

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how in...
DENNIS PRAGER

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse ...
DENNIS PRAGER

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.
DENNIS PRAGER

For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration...
DENNIS PRAGER

Complaining not only ruins everybody else's day, it ruins the complainer's day, too. The mor...
DENNIS PRAGER

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it...
DENNIS PRAGER

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.
DENNIS RODMAN

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.
DENNIS FARINA

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economi...
DENNIS PRAGER

Between the three, Facebook is literally everyone I've ever shaken hands with at a conference or...
DENNIS CROWLEY

Coming back to a television series puts you back in the limelight and gives you a platform for your ...
DENNIS WEAVER

If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to ...
DENNIS WEAVER

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up...
DENNIS WEAVER

I feel responsible; I feel I've got to do something that will leave the kids a place where they ...
DENNIS WEAVER

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!
DENNIS WEAVER

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, prim...
DENNIS WEAVER

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out...
DENNIS WEAVER

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.
DENNIS WEAVER

The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.
DENNIS WEAVER

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.
DENNIS WEAVER

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.
DENNIS WEAVER

War is usually fought over diminishing resources, particulary those that we perceive to be extremely...
DENNIS WEAVER

Business has to change the way it does business, or we will make no significant changes in the way w...
DENNIS WEAVER

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave...
DENNIS WEAVER

Business must be the solution, not the problem.
DENNIS WEAVER

Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now.
DENNIS WEAVER

The people of the future will say, meat-eaters in disgust and regard us in the same way that we rega...
DENNIS WEAVER

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.
DENNIS WEAVER

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.
DENNIS WEAVER

You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
FELIX DENNIS

She looked at him like it physically hurt her not to speak, and yet she stayed silent.
DENNIS SHARPE

You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off ...
DENNIS KUCINICH

Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.
DENNIS RODMAN

I'm one of the more pessimistic cats on the planet. I make Van Gogh look like a rodeo clown.
DENNIS MILLER

That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It...
DENNIS LEHANE

I want to help the helpless, but I don't want to help the clueless.
DENNIS MILLER

On Capitol Hill, House Republicans have been doing our part. We've been hard at work developing ...
DENNIS HASTERT

Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just n...
DENNIS FARINA

There's a whole catalogue of actors that never went to acting school.
DENNIS FARINA

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he n...
DENNIS MILLER

You've got bad eating habits if you use a grocery cart in 7-Eleven.
DENNIS MILLER

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or...
DENNIS RODMAN

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.
DENNIS MILLER

I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffe...
DENNIS LEHANE

I am super pleased with what's going on. I've got 35 kids out this time as opposed to last year when...
BILL DENNIS

I was pretty stunned. What a mix of emotions. How long does it take the ball to get to the headpin? ...
BILL DENNIS

In the long term, the benefits could be much, much greater than the cost.
BILL DENNIS

And he only knew because he happened to ask. And I'm not going to tell anybody.
BILL DENNIS

Kids do two events and have a whole lot of depth at other places, so it turns out a whole lot better...
BILL DENNIS

We continue to add key distributors across Europe so aviation customers keen to use Exxon Elite and ...
BILL DENNIS

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. App...
DENNIS PRAGER

The beginnings of a forest is one of the ugliest things on the planet. It's bleak and your neigh...
FELIX DENNIS

My mindset is of the person who is still unsure whether they have enough money in their ATM to go to...
DENNIS CROWLEY

When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and ...
FELIX DENNIS

In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's...
DENNIS QUAID

When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time ...
DENNIS QUAID

What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care...
DENNIS MILLER

There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys e...
DENNIS HASTERT

If we were driving pure hydrogen automobiles, that automobile would actually help clean up the air b...
DENNIS WEAVER

It is essential that Christians understand this: Every Jew - secular, religious, assimilated, left-w...
DENNIS PRAGER

Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigra...
DENNIS PRAGER

When watching 'The Passion,' Jews and Christians are watching two entirely different films. ...
DENNIS PRAGER

I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I...
DENNIS NILSEN

Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac.
FELIX DENNIS

They didn't have a problem with me being wild and crazy when it came time to fill the arenas.
DENNIS RODMAN

I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.
DENNIS LEHANE

There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held ...
DENNIS KUCINICH

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of...
DENNIS GABOR

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and orange...
DENNIS MOORE

With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazin...
FELIX DENNIS

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully ...
DENNIS MILLER

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders w...
FELIX DENNIS

Other clubs never came into my thoughts once I knew Arsenal wanted to sign me.
DENNIS BERGKAMP

To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lac...
DENNIS PRAGER

I had seen 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and I thought that was a different kind of ...
DENNIS FARINA

The most credible police shows I've ever seen were 'Barney Miller' on TV and 'The Fr...
DENNIS FARINA

The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.
DENNIS WILSON

The fact that I'm an African-American man as a lead, it really doesn't surprise me at all because I've never seen myself as a victim or any of those things. I just thought that when I wasn't a lead before, it was just shortsighted.

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Dennis Haysbert

The fact that I'm an African-American man as a lead, it really doesn't surprise me at all because I've never seen myself as a victim or any of those things. I just thought that when I wasn't a lead before, it was just shortsighted.

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