Quotes by Derek Luke - Page 1

In my heart of hearts I believe I was made to entertain.
Derek Luke / Actor
Believe
Heart
Made
Heart Believe I Believe
Believe Heart I Believe
Entertain
Hearts
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I had a lot of fun with Val Kilmer. He's like a big kid.
Derek Luke / Actor
Kids
Bigs
Fun
Val
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The magic isn't in getting married, it's in staying married.
Derek Luke / Actor
Getting Married
Magic
Married
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I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.
Derek Luke / Actor
Artist
Hip Hop
Hips
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I was discovered on the Sony lot through an audition by Denzel Washington.
Derek Luke / Actor
Auditions
Denzel
Sony
Audition
Denzel Washington
Discovered
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As a parent my greatest fear is always anything that endangers my children.
Derek Luke / Actor
Children
Greatest Fear
Parent
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Oh, my God! My wife and I, boy, we got down that night. On a personal note!
Derek Luke / Actor
Note
Oh My God
Personal Note
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I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.
Derek Luke / Actor
Actors
Related
Tupac
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Sometimes my faith becomes more sensitive to how people feel, as opposed to what needs to be.
Derek Luke / Actor
Needs
People
Sometimes
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It's a story about victory that will touch the lives of everyone who watches it. It's powerful.
Derek Luke / Actor
Watches
Touch
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Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.
Derek Luke / Actor
Hip Hop
Mirrors
Rap
Mirror
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I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.
Derek Luke / Actor
Dialogue
Kickboxing
Want
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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.
Derek Luke / Actor
Absent
Firsts
Heart
Spirit
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I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.
Derek Luke / Actor
Cities
College
Jersey
Please
Prepared
School
Failed
Family Member
Member
Nicely
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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.
Derek Luke / Actor
Hollywood
Law
Spirituality
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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.
Derek Luke / Actor
Better Person
Denzel
Emulate
Made
Real
Real Life
Life Me Better
Life Always Me
Life Better Always
Denzel Washington
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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.
Derek Luke / Actor
Careers
Thinking
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I don't think people come to television for spectacle. And I don't really have a lot of fun writing spectacle for television, I'll do that in features.
Derek Luke / Actor
Fun
Thinking
Writing
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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.
Derek Luke / Actor
Character
Hard Times
Play
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He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.
Derek Luke / Actor
Daughter
Busy
Hype
Mother
Waiting
Behold
Calls
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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.
Derek Luke / Actor
Quality
Believe
Denzel
Just Do It
Thinking
Faith Believe Your
Faith Believe Me
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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.
Derek Luke / Actor
Dream
Cities
Holding On
Sony
Studios
Holding
Literally
Shirt
Store
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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.
Derek Luke / Actor
Giving Up
Stories
Thinking
Time Hope Myself
Appealed
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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.
Derek Luke / Actor
Interesting
People
Roles
People Doing Will
Theaters
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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.
Derek Luke / Actor
Confidence
Smile
Being Honest
Denzel
Honest
Performances
Washington
Denzel Washington
Performance
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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.
Derek Luke / Actor
Dream
Challenges
Changed
Decided
Excited
Jersey
New Jersey
Reality
Challenge
Saw
Store
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I tried to copy some of his mannerisms at first but it didn't work. And then I just let the spirit of the character grow in me and it just took its rightful place. I started to speak the lines and it felt right.
Derek Luke / Actor
Lines
Mannerisms
Work Character Me
Copy
Rightful
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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.
Derek Luke / Actor
Kids
College
Failing
Semester
Thinking
Ended
Subject
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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.
Derek Luke / Actor
Acting
Order
Rooms
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I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother.
Derek Luke / Actor
Black Or White
Rejection
Time Home Movies
All Races
Colors
Hits
Races
Suburban
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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.
Derek Luke / Actor
Wisdom
Faith
Men
Believe
Film
Purpose
Standing
Years
Years Ago
Life Wisdom God
Life God Faith
Tv
Plan
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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.
Derek Luke / Actor
Mom
Conversation
Mother
Simple
Watching Tv
Age Mom Me
Reminded
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