121 Quotes by Tavis Smiley

I think, for most of us is that once you get to a certain place in your career you’re not having to elbow and knock people around and audition for parts.

Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it’s essential for our lives.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

Don’t envy someone else’s gift. Discover your own.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater.

Struggling to stay in the middle class, and I love that. That’s me and my dad and my family.

Well, if that’s the case, then it’s not silly to see rejection as a gift whose contents and character may not be known until a later time. But that doesn’t mean that the gift isn’t real. It doesn’t mean that the gift isn’t precious. And it doesn’t mean that the gift isn’t helping us to subtly shift our thinking from willful expectation to grateful acceptance. We want our journey to be directed by God, not our adamant insistence that things go our way.” “I may be guilty of that very tendency,” I.

When I’m at the premiere and I see the film in its entirety, I forget plot, I forget the story, I forget what my character goes through, because I really do just let it go.

How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy – I want to talk about the movie in a second – but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?