Nia Long Quotes
Sad Quotes by Nia Long

I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.'
He said,
'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie,
don't worry about it.' But they're not.
- Nia Long

We're all in the service business.
If you hire me to do a job I expect everybody else to be where I am.
A little bit of crazy is good.
It keeps things - balanced.
- Nia Long

First of all when you're a mommy like you like the
consistency of being on a show like that's just peace of mind,
I know I have financial, you know stability.
- Nia Long

I have a beautiful son, I don't regret it,
I'm very proud of the way that we handle our relationship
and the way that we keep our son first and that's our priority.
- Nia Long

I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the
other night because I saw her on an awards show recently.
- Nia Long

I think there are a lot of other actors that are just talented,
it's just about this opportunity - it's just about
when are we going to be put in those positions where we can shine.
- Nia Long

It's my motor, it's the thing that keeps me going and
so when I have these auditions for these big movies,
I can depend on myself because I've been working consistently.
- Nia Long

I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything
you're feeling because for them it's as serious as
when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.
- Nia Long

I think for me to find that project is going to be
something that I'm going to have to develop for myself.
- Nia Long

I think Nina Simone has had an amazing journey.
She was spicy and she had attitude and she didn't care,
she wanted her money in a paper bag and don't mess
with me and I've been doing some research on that so.
- Nia Long

I took a little break - I was coming back to work and
the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards,
so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it
was going to have to be taking a step forward.
- Nia Long

You need the words, you need the script,
you need the material, you need the commitment,
you need the passion, it's like we depend on writers,
we depend on producers, directors depend on us and
once things are in the divine order as they happen.
- Nia Long

I know for me like I have a reputation of being kind of tough,
I have a reputation of also being the girl next door,
kind of sweet but I have standards and my thing is,
it's me on that screen and I don't have control over
everything in this and I'm grateful and thankful.
- Nia Long

They have the big ferris wheel and we've been out of town for two months,
so he just was like, 'Mommy I want to go to Toys R
Us and I don't care if you have a movie coming out and all that.'
He was just being a kid.
But I had to allow him to have that moment.
- Nia Long

He just was being four.
He just was being a child.
He wasn't interested in what my agenda was.
He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started
because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us.
- Nia Long

I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon
last night and he embarrassed me.
It was like one of those moments when I couldn't believe
my kid is acting like this.
I just had to just like walk away from him because
he was really pushing my buttons.
- Nia Long

In terms of Cube I think he's very conscious of the
technical aspect of the business whereas when you're just hired as an actor,
you're not really secure in that part of your work
and you're not really paying attention to where the camera.
- Nia Long

We haven't even gotten a start date but we'll see what
happens with that and that will be fun.
I've gotten a couple of other things but I'm not really
committing myself to anything yet.
- Nia Long

It took a long time to get that film made.
I went in for it almost right after or like maybe six
or seven months after I had my son and actually auditioned
for the Regina King part and they just were like,
'No, you're just - you just don't really seem the part.'
- Nia Long

Well, the studios don't really want to take those risks right off the bat.
They'll take the risk after they've seen the finished
product and say oh yeah we want that.
This is a great film but they are hesitant to take
the risk when you just see it on paper.
- Nia Long

I was happy she got it and I have to sort of -
and one of the reasons I did Third Watch is because
I wanted to break that thing of just being the pretty
girl and play it down and let it be about the work.
- Nia Long

I think you grow through your experiences;
you get better as you grow and I'm not nearly where
I think I'm going to be eventually where I inspire
to be and hopefully the opportunities will continue to come.
- Nia Long

It's like going to the gym everyday.
It really is.
I work hard on my craft, I sweat a little bit,
I run a little bit, I might sprain an ankle every now and them,
but it's all good and the more you do it,
the more in shape you are and it's like a machine.
- Nia Long

I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should
he and we talk about it and I think what's great about
the film is that it shows is the meaning of family
doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was,
like you can make a family.
- Nia Long

But that we didn't have the level of experience in
terms of working in the industry so you weren't sure
and you needed to see it and this is an industry that
the more you work the better you get and that the more
opportunities you have the better you get.
- Nia Long

I know where I'm going to be, I'm not traveling here
and there and everywhere.
That didn't necessarily prompt me to it but it definitely
opened up my mind of saying okay,
maybe this is a good time to do this.
- Nia Long

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

Momma always said dyin' was a part of life.
I sure wish it wasn't.
- the movie Forrest Gump

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy,
that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said.
- Mel Brooks

Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.
- Thomas Szasz

The God of Children and Fools:
There once was a man way up high,
who sat on his chair in the sky.
he called down to fool us,
and said he would rule us,
until we woke up bye and bye.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

We can only be said to be truly alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder

When I look back on all these worries,
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed
that he had had a lot of trouble in his life,
most of which had never happened.
- Winston Churchill

I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln

I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted
with the government of himself.
Can he, then be trusted with the government of others?
Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him?
Let history answer this question.
- Thomas Jefferson

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I unconditionally forgive myself for everything
that I have ever done, said, or thought
that has caused me harm or suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"Sometimes," said Pooh, "the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb

Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin

"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll

You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you
before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,
"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
- Lewis Carroll

I never said most of the things I said.
- Yogi Berra

He early on let her know who is the boss.
He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss."
- Anonymous humor

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand.
"I just wanted to be sure of you."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things:
of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings."
- Lewis Carroll

When a man you like switches from what
he said a year ago, or four years ago,
he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough
to change his mind with changing conditions.
When a man you don't like does it,
he is a liar who has broken his promise.
- Franklin Pierce Adams

Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Drawing on my fine command of the English language,
I said nothing.
- Robert Benchley

When all is said and done,
the one sole condition that makes
spiritual happiness and preserves it
is the absence of doubt.
- Mark Twain

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
- Karl Barth

"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll

One day Alice came to a fork in the road
and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll

I unconditionally forgive everyone for all hurt
that I have ever experienced in the presence of their actions.
I unconditionally forgive myself for everything that I have ever done,
said, or thought that has caused me harm or suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Confucius might have said:
Once frightened, twice smelly in armpit.
- Anonymous humor

How true Daddy's words were when he said:
all children must look after their own upbringing.
Parents can only give good advice
or put them on the right paths,
but the final forming of a person's character
lies in their own hands.
- Anne Frank

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
- Calvin Coolidge

I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't.
But there was going to be when I began it.
It's just that something happened to it along the way."
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

Look your best - who said love is blind?
- Mae West

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think,
because you can't change it.'
- Daisy Donovan