Gossett Quotes & Sayings

I won't do something just for the sake of working. — Juliette Binoche

If you really love acting, you'll want to act. That's what I did. You don't look for any payday because the likelihood of a payday is slim to none. — Robert Gossett

Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about. — Saul David

When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it. — Louis Gossett Jr.

I am the ghost of Christmas futures, George! — Fredrik Backman

The Lord may not come when you want Him, but he's always going to be there on time. — Louis Gossett Jr.

We cannot do this now!" ...
"Sure we can."
He scowled ... "Go home, Dory."
"Give me what I want and I will!"
Radu appeared in the doorway. "I know this is a stupid question before I ask it, but is there any chance that we can discuss this like civilized people?"
Louis-Cesare ... stepped back a pace and dangled the duffel of one long finger. "Come and get it."
I stared. "Oh, no, you didn't."
"Oh, yeah. He did. You gonna take that?" Raymond piped up ...
"You really want to do this?" I demanded ... The only answer I got was a flying tackle that caught me around the knees and sent me skidding on my back over hard wood.
I grinned. Well, all right then.
"That's what I thought." Radu sighed. — Karen Chance

Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future. — Louis Gossett Jr.

I wish I could freeze time or go back in time and watch my kids grow up all over again because it is just going by too fast. — Robert Rodriguez

I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps. — Robert Gossett

I think more important than law is the hearts of people. — Louis Gossett Jr.

Even through the haze of summer you can see the cleared pockets of land that were once forest, now logged into oblivion. They look like a disease, but to the north and west, the untouched hills are a calm reminder. — Victoria Aveyard

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop. — Louis Gossett Jr.

You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God. — Louis Gossett Jr.

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household. — Louis Gossett Jr.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity. — Louis Gossett Jr.

Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath. — Jakob Bohme

Human beings have always preferred common sense to logic. — Terry Pratchett

I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou Gossett, Cicely Tyson, Diana Ladd and I played a Jewish kid who offered himself as a slave to two Columbia University students as reparations. — David Steinberg

What effect am I having on this world? I'm not sure yet. I have my worries, doubts and fears, but the way I'm trying to affect the world is with positive, right action. — Robert Gossett

I was invited to play with the New York Knicks. I was never drafted, but I was invited to the rookie camp. — Louis Gossett Jr.

I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered. — Louis Gossett Jr.

I went to The Miller School of Albemarle, just outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. As a kid, I really loved the movie 'Toy Soldiers' starring Sean Astin and Lou Gossett Jr., and when I found out they filmed that movie at the Miller School, I was excited to go there. — Scott Haze

'Tis not to make me jealous
To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well;
Where virtue is, these are more virtuous. — William Shakespeare

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts. — Louis Gossett Jr.

I'm cancer-free. And I'm on antioxidants and acupuncture and a different diet. And I have a different outlook on life. I don't have resentment any more. It's wonderful. — Louis Gossett Jr.

The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep. — Louis Gossett Jr.

Some day, following the example of men like themselves, said Mr Fraser, the Chinese too would take to Free Trade: — Amitav Ghosh

I was at Woodstock. In the mud. — Louis Gossett Jr.

My father's best friend, Georgie Terra, was an Italian guy. The children and the cousins and nieces and nephews were children of the Mafia. Those were the children he grew up with. If you want to go to a safe neighborhood, go to where the Mafia is. — Louis Gossett Jr.

If a role isn't different, it's not worth doing. — Louis Gossett Jr.

'Avatar' was gorgeous. There are good stories in there, but when used in other movies they're similar to those violent video games. Characters using deadly weapons. The children follow these movies. — Louis Gossett Jr.

I started with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee and Lou Gossett, Jr. and the rest of the wonderful cast of 'A Raisin In The Sun.' We were directed by the great Lloyd Richards. The play was written by the wonderful Lorraine Hansberry, and it was produced by Phil Rose. That's where my start was, so ... not a bad way to start. — Glynn Turman

I want to be remembered as a loving, understanding father. — Robert Gossett