I did the thing with bonds, which was about 30 million dollars, and didn't get none of the money on them. - James Brown
I only got a seventh-grade education, but I have a doctorate in funk, and I like to put that to good use. - James Brown
I used to play one job and have 125 pair of shoes on the floor. What was I doing? I couldn't wear but one pair. - James Brown
I was stillborn. The midwives laid me aside, thought I was really gone. I laid there about an hour, and they picked me back up and tried again, 'cause my body was still warm. The Good Lord brought me back. - James Brown
I'm a ghetto man who made good. I never forgot where I came from and who put me on top - God and Jack The Rapper. - James Brown
Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days. - James Brown
Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us. - James Brown
I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character. - Vin Diesel
I grew up in an artist community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidized for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art. - Vin Diesel
I grew up the son of an acting teacher, so I was kind of introduced to all of these various methods early... I've never been really good at articulating how, what that process is in the way that Stanislavsky could. - Vin Diesel
I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic. - Vin Diesel
I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character. - Vin Diesel
I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny. - Vin Diesel
I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes? - Vin Diesel
I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip. - Vin Diesel
It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed. - Vin Diesel
The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else. - Vin Diesel
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