Sterling K. Brown Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Sterling K. Brown:

My mom, who is a very strong Christian woman, will often ask me how some of the characters I play glorify God. Her meaning is that she feels as if every character should be a good Christian character, which is not necessarily my interpretation.

At the highest level of your craft, you don't have to play games or make people feel small; you can just embrace.

Sterling K. Brown

My family did a lot of road trips across these continental United States when I was a kid. Twenty or so of us would caravan in four or five vehicles and hit every corner of the connected 48.

Sterling K. Brown

As a kid growing up St. Louis, Missouri, I lived in a predominantly black neighborhood. Any time people talked about slavery, it was always something like, 'If I was a slave, I wouldn't have been putting up with that. I would have been out in a heartbeat.' And it's like, sure, it's a very easy thing to say.

Sterling K. Brown

I lived in St. Louis, Missouri, and now my kids are growing up in Los Angeles, so that's culturally very different.

Sterling K. Brown

As a freshman at Stanford University - a young black man - when O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder, it was a joyful moment. I was happy, absolutely. It wasn't necessarily a matter of whether he was guilty or innocent, per se, it was a matter of finally seeing someone who looked like me have the justice system work in their favor.

Sterling K. Brown

If you haven't done shows that are on everyone's radar, then you're something out of nowhere.

Sterling K. Brown

My first series regular was on a TV show called 'Starved,' which was so many years ago, and I was the only guy they brought in. So I go in, I read, it goes well. The next day I hear I got the job, and I rejoiced.

Sterling K. Brown

My mom, who is a very strong Christian woman, will often ask me how some of the characters I play glorify God. Her meaning is that she feels as if every character should be a good Christian character, which is not necessarily my interpretation.

Sterling K. Brown

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

Sterling K. Brown

I want to be remembered for a body of work so that when the next guy comes up, he could think of Sterling K. Brown in the same way that I think of Andre Braugher and James Earl Jones.

Sterling K. Brown

Running gives me the confidence to be at my peak throughout the rest of my day.

Sterling K. Brown

I'm a little kid from St. Louis, Missouri, on the inside.

Sterling K. Brown

I try to drink a lot of water - it hydrates, curbs appetite, etc.

Sterling K. Brown

I went to a college prep high school in St. Louis, Missouri. When I graduated from school, I owned this thing called the Headmaster's Cup, and the Headmaster's Cup is for the student who exemplifies the spirit of the institution and is recognized by the faculty and administration.

Sterling K. Brown

Being in a Marvel film is the pinnacle of secrecy training.

Sterling K. Brown

Life has to be everything. It can't be all sad. It can't be all peaches and cream. Because the lows have you appreciate the highs. And the highs give you perspective on the lows. If it's not everything, it becomes flat or mundane.

Sterling K. Brown

I see my friends and family who have a passion or a dream, but it's now a dream deferred because they were never naive enough or brazen enough to say, 'Let me do this.'

Sterling K. Brown

I have tremendous respect for Christopher Darden, and I recognize him as an individual of integrity, who did his job to the best of his ability, and I want to tell him thank you. Thank you for enduring hatred from his own community, for being ostracized and called an Uncle Tom and a sellout.

Sterling K. Brown

I don't want to try to fool people into thinking that I'm something that I'm not.

Sterling K. Brown

I can't wait to see little white kids dressing up as Black Panther.

Sterling K. Brown

Different roles call for different aspects or different faces of Sterling to emerge.

Sterling K. Brown

I can't let other people dictate how I see myself.

Sterling K. Brown

The humanity that is given to other people isn't given to us. There is an expendability that comes along with being African American.

Sterling K. Brown

You can take your play seriously as long as you seriously play.

Sterling K. Brown

Before I was an actor, I was a fan.

Sterling K. Brown

It's one thing to entertain, to educate, but to edify, to lift people up, that's - to God be the glory.

Sterling K. Brown

The work of acting, in and of itself, is something that is infinitely enjoyable.

Sterling K. Brown

We all have our prejudices, and we may or may not be aware of them. Sometimes people walk by me and give me a wider berth. It happens. I wear hoodies all the time because my head gets cold. Something innocuous can be misunderstood.

Sterling K. Brown

M. Night Shyamalan can draw quite a few people to quite a few things, and having the opportunity to work with him is very cool.

Sterling K. Brown

Sarah Paulson is the most prepared and professional actor I've had the privilege of working with. I learned so much about preparation and attention to detail and speaking up when something is not right.

Sterling K. Brown

One of my favorite things to do, when the ghost light is on and it's just an empty stage - I'll let my shadow spread right across the theater, and I just say to myself, 'For the next few hours, these folks are my responsibility. I get to share in something that is unique.' It's like church.

Sterling K. Brown

I have gay people in my family who weren't able to openly discuss homosexuality, and I feel like that's shifted, especially here on the coast.

Sterling K. Brown

I do believe that for me, my own personal journey has been one in which my voice has also been appreciated.

Sterling K. Brown

I love me some Kendrick Lamar, love J. Cole.

Sterling K. Brown

Understand what you want, and want it as badly as you can. Make the stakes for yourself as life-or-death as you can.

Sterling K. Brown

You got to let the people know while they're here how much they're appreciated and how much you love them.

Sterling K. Brown