100+ Derek Luke Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: - "Notorious actor Derek Luke talks about playing P Diddy and trying to find the human side of Sean Combs". www.mirror.co.uk. February 13, 2009.

Topics: Believe, Heart, Made

When your heart is first, you can be absent of heart but when you put spirit first, you have a reason for why you do heart.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Heart, Firsts, Spirit

A few years ago you couldn't go from TV to film. It was like a 'no no' but I believe when you find a plan and purpose that God has for your life, there's not anything man can do to you. Especially when your faith is not really standing in the wisdom of man, you're really standing in the wisdom of God.

source: - "Exclusive: Derek Luke Talks About Spirituality, Jack Johnson and His New Role On 'Hawthorne'" by Cynthia Reid, www.indiewire.com. June 14, 2011.

Topics: Believe, Men, Years

I want what's mine. I see other actors who are doing very interesting roles, and I just want to continue to do things that are interesting, and things that people will go see in theaters.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Interesting, People, Roles

Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person.

source: - "Derek Luke: 'I was molested, and I have my own personal fight'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. December 19, 2002.

Topics: Real, Better Person, Made, Denzel

Spartan is about this elite unit of the armed forces named the Delta Force. I play a protege of Val Kilmer's character, and he kind of gives me a hard time.

Topics: Character, Hard Times, Play

Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance.

Topics: Honest, Denzel, Have Confidence

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Giving Up, Thinking, Stories

Denzel's quality, I think, is his faith. You have all the action in your head and you have to believe in it and just do it. That's what he does and that's what he taught me to do.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Believe, Thinking, Quality, Denzel

I had a lot of fun with Val Kilmer. He's like a big kid.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Fun, Kids, Bigs

I was working at the store on the Sony studios in Culver City. And I was literally holding a shirt when they came in and told me I'd got the part! It just shows dreams do come true.

Topics: Dream, Cities, Shirts

I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.

Topics: Kids, College, Thinking, Semester

Then I was working in a store in Newark, New Jersey, and I saw an actor in person, and I got so excited. My whole day changed. That's when I decided to challenge myself to make my dreams become a reality.

source: - "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Topics: Dream, Reality, Challenges, Newark, New Jersey

I've always had to bind up and wrestle fear, because acting is really about faith. And faith and fear can't really stay in the same room. So, in order for you to be more than a conqueror, you're going to have to defeat fear with faith.

source: - "Derek Luke: The Notorious Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. January 25, 2009.

Topics: Order, Acting, Rooms, Fear And Faith

The magic isn't in getting married, it's in staying married

source: - "Fictional character: William Wright". "Baggage Claim", www.imdb.com. 2013.

Topics: Magic, Married, Getting Married

I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later.

source: - "Shadow & Act One On One w/ Derek Luke On His Work In ‘Sparkle’ & Upcoming Projects". Shadow & Act Interview, www.indiewire.com. August 09, 2012.

Topics: Mom, Mother, Simple

I think many times in relationships as it escalates to marriage, what it takes to breed a marriage, is the same thing that it takes to breed a career.

source: - Source: blogs.indiewire.com

Topics: Thinking, Careers

Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That's why faith and spirituality is a higher law.

source: - Source: blogs.indiewire.com

Topics: Law, Hollywood, Spirituality, Higher Law

I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.

source: - "Exclusive: Derek Luke Talks Self/less". Interview with Wilson Morales, www.blackfilm.com. July 6, 2015.

Topics: Want, Kickboxing, Dialogue

Sometimes my faith becomes more sensitive to how people feel, as opposed to what needs to be.

source: - Source: blogs.indiewire.com