Lee Daniels Quotes

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Lee Daniels

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 24, 1959

The ratings board is completely different when it comes to film versus the television arena.

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I want to see movies I can walk away from and say, 'Wait, what happened there? Hold up, what did I just see? What?' and then it connects to something that you personally, unequivocally know to be truth.

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I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual.

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That's the gift 'Precious' has given me. You really think you're telling a story about a fat black girl, and only fat black girls will understand it, and then you realize we're all Precious.

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If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me.

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Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in.

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I'm always workin', man. I gotta pay the light bills.

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I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

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I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tell me, and you work behind my back, it's a lie, and I don't know how to fight that.

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At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving.

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I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.

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I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.

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I wanted to make a black 'Dynasty.'

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My kids tell me to Instagram, so I do that. I have a few thousand followers.

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

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My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at 8, you know, with a bunch of kids on my steps - on the stoops - and knowing that I wanted to direct them saying the lines. I don't really know how to articulate that 'cause there wasn't someone to show me.

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

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Theater was always in the backdrop. Nursing was a way to pay the bills. I wasn't a nurse; I had a nursing agency.

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I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.

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I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.

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