21 Quotes From Bill Duke

21 Quotes From Bill Dukee

Never... never... whether you are five or 100, never give up. It's never too late.

— Bill Duke

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

— Bill Duke

AIDS is a very, very, very vicious disease, particularly in the black community.

— Bill Duke

Pain is pain.

— Bill Duke

I could direct a very decent Holocaust film, but I don't have the same experience as a young boy who was rocked to sleep in the lap of a grandmother who had a tattooed number on her arm, who told him stories of the people who disappeared, the relatives she never saw again, as he drifted off with his cheek nestled next to that number.

— Bill Duke

I think that some actors who make it in Hollywood are very talented. There are some of my heroes, the Meryl Streeps of the world, a lot of people that I love their work but I think a lot of it is luck, looks, strategic alliances and relationships, your agent and a lot of business components.

— Bill Duke

By healing the internal issues that we can heal as a people, our children don't have to suffer the same agony and pain that we put each other through.

— Bill Duke

My parents taught me that it is my responsibility to make sacrifices for those after me.

— Bill Duke

Acting takes courage.

— Bill Duke

Our internal racism is still alive. We are still putting each other down and making jokes about each other because of the color of our skin. With women particularly, it's difficult because the beauty business says, 'If you don't look a certain way, God made a mistake.'

— Bill Duke

I don't have all the answers. I'm just supposed to present what I think is an issue and have dialogue start.

— Bill Duke

I meditate twice a day, T.M., and do yoga and tai chi.

— Bill Duke

The largest country with the largest consumption of skin bleach in the world is India. Indian men are bleaching their skin because, in terms of marriage, if your skin is dark, it's assumed you work in a field. If your skin is lighter, it's assumed you work in an office because you're not getting enough sun. Indian men are bleaching their skin.

— Bill Duke

I had parents who taught me ethics that I didn't know they were teaching me at the time.

— Bill Duke

Television is an excellent training ground for a director. If you work consistently in television, as I did, you have to come in on time and on budget. What you are allowed in feature films are, fortunately, more time and a larger budget.

— Bill Duke

I didn't come up in a culture or society that looked on me as a movie star. I was the bad guy. I was fortunate enough to be cast in some roles that weren't bad, were positive.

— Bill Duke

No individual should rely on any other human being or system to define their worth as a human being. You have to begin to find that within yourself.

— Bill Duke

I think the media and the Internet and all that stuff, has created this perception of black women as these mammy types, kind of angry, you know, full of pent up emotions and resentments. And that these women are people to feared rather than loved.

— Bill Duke

It's very difficult to direct something and do it well. But to direct and act - it's very hard.

— Bill Duke

What I really plan to do is take the best scripts I get and consider them seriously. I can actually work as an actor and prepare a film as a director.

— Bill Duke

You determine your reality.

— Bill Duke

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