Jurnee Smollett Quotes

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I was always a very good student.

I love academics, theory and all that. I love and admire that and try to do as much reading as I can.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on.

We want a corps of educated instructors – we want gratuitous instruction in our academies and colleges. The di minorum of learning ought to be elevated in the scale of public estimation and intellectual endowment.

Most young American actors feel like teenagers.

Hire me for the next picture. I don't have to just play down-and-out trailer trash and mean, old, wicked, old nuns. I could play a princess or a queen. That's all I wanted to do. Because campaigning does go on. It's a part of selling the film.

When I joined the Sunday Times the people I was competing with were all 10 or 15 years younger, they all had double firsts from Oxford or Cambridge, they were all bright as new pins.

I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.

I don't really pay attention to which accent I have. I'm in a singular box as an actress.

Stereotyped as convention-going, pocket-protector-wearing, chess-playing, infrequently-showering types, nerds are one of our society's most ridiculed groups. And, for a university with an international reputation as a bastion of intellectualism, Harvard is startlingly devoid of them.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

I wanted to be cast because I'm an actor and not because of how I look or where I'm from. I'm brown. I want to be able to play a Spanish girl some day or a Mexican girl and learn the language. That's what actors do: we act.

It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.

I had a great time at Oxford, got a wonderful, wonderful education there.

I say that a university is a house of knowledge, not for showing off Dolce & Gabbana bags. Students should go to university in uniform.

I've always played variety of roles and don't want to get typecast.

No doubt an actress has to do varied roles. But I don't want myself to be typecast as an actress who can only do off-beat ventures.

The chips fall into place, but the educational experience I had at Cal, second to none.

I don't think I am restricting myself to doing only comedy; I am hoping that someone offers me something else.

I consider myself a reasonably intelligent guy. Made straight A's in high school (except for driver's ed and typing).

I don't want to be typecast as a heroine doing just glamorous roles.

I always felt that, as an actor, I should play a variety of roles rather than just sticking to one kind & getting typecast.

I did well in school and was able to excel in those areas where I knew I needed to be good at.