Ben Vereen Quotes

When somebody gives their testimony or tells their story, the next person can be motivated or inspired by it. That's all I'm trying to do.

Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own.

I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.

I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed.

I feel unbelievably blessed that I have had the opportunity to photograph Malala in her classroom in Birmingham.

I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto, and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.

I've been blessed with so many opportunities and so many amazing things throughout this process. But all the while, I remember that the reason that I'm here and the reason that I do music and tell these stories is that people come to know the love, the God that I know.

I've been blessed in that regard through and through. So I'm just thankful for this opportunity to play the game that I love and share that with the world.

My favorite scripture is, 'Your gifts make room for you.' It's something I tell people all the time.

I feel so grateful for the whole ride that I've been on.

I just feel like it's a blessing to be able to represent Compton.

I write because I have authority from life to do so.

I feel like God blessed me to be successful and to have a couple of more things that a lot of people of where I come from didn't have or didn't see, but it ain't always about me. It's about empowering the next generation so that's what I love doing.

What I've realized in the last year, 80% of my act has already happened to me, and it's not until you retell the story at a party or to a friend or it comes up on the podcast that you, I don't know why I'm not doing that onstage!

I'm so blessed to be able to work with some of the best writers out there, and it's kind of like college with me sitting in a room with some of the best of the best and really taking it in and learning from them, but then also taking time to sit and tell them my stories - it's one of the biggest blessings that could have ever happened.

I'm really grateful for the opportunities I get. But I do spend a lot of time thinking about how lucky I am so I don't become complacent about it.

As difficult as my story is, it's nothing compared to the people I've worked with. And so I just want to do everything I can to make sure that America continues to be a land of opportunity and hope for people and refuge for people from all over the world.

You try to bring a smile to people's faces, and try to tell people of the adventure you've been on, the success you've had and what it takes.

I'm writing all the books I wish I had when I was a kid.

Starting with a meagre amount of Rs 300 as a conductor, when I became an actor and started seeing huge moneys like Rs 3 or 4 lakhs, I thought I was 'an exclusive creation' by God, and he had made me like this. Later, I got the wisdom and realised that my time was good and things worked out! And I was also a normal human being like others.

When I look back to being a 10-year-old girl, I never could have dreamt of having this pathway. I feel very fortunate and proud, but I know I have to be part of creating new opportunities for the youth coming through.

I really feel blessed to be in a position I am, to even have an opportunity to play in the league.

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.