Samira Wiley Quotes

I wanted to be a bartender for a bit.

I'd actually quite like to try working behind a bar for a while. I'd give that a go.

My brother and I worked in eight bars as the brother bartenders.

I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.

I'm not a great player, but I'm a damn good one.

I worked the bar business in Fort Lauderdale.

Working behind the cocktail bar was a different kind of escapism, a creative outlet with a newfound respect for alcohol. I didn't drink as I was also working day shifts in a coffee shop and, later, the fire service, and needed my wits about me to pull off my 60-hour working weeks.

I never said I am the best.

I was a pretty damn good waiter.

As I said, i'm very quiet, i don't go around saying "I'm awesome!" but when I brought in my portfolio into DreamWorks and showed them what I could do, my art style is a lot wilder than I am.

I don't see myself as a world-class player.

I'm not that good at cards.

Granddad taught me a long time ago, act like you've been there before.

Whatever faults I may have, I do know a player.

I'm a director! I don't work with no amateurs!

I really don't think of myself as the best player on the team.

I have a great amount of enthusiasm, and I am a man who knows how to do this job inside out because of the experience I've gained over the years.

I'm not some schmuck they just hired and threw down in the Performance Center and gave him an entrance or anything that like. I've been around enough and have enough experience; I know what I'm doing pretty much.

I think there are still better players than me.

I was bartending in Boston five, six nights a week, living in my grandmother's condo. By the way, I'm a really good bartender - that's the only skill I can confidently say I have.

'XXL,' they call me a freshman, but I'm a pro. So, this a platform to let people know I'm out here.

I have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth and one of the shortest-lived.

I feel like I'm pretty good but I don't like to toot my own horn, you know. I want to let the work speak for itself and kind of move on to the next thing.

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.