Morris Chestnut Quotes

As an actor, you just want to continue to work on things that you like. You can be in this business a long time and consistently working and just be totally artistically unfulfilled.

As much as I can and am able to, with the projects that are presented to me, I try to just really choose things that are challenging and are something I haven't tackled before.

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.

Focus on making you the best you can be as an actor, and follow your own path.

I just enjoy working with really wonderful actors and amazing creative people and I hope to keep doing that, no matter where.

Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.

If you ever get to a point where you stop learning, you will find your professional options and your personal satisfaction severely curtailed.

To me, being in fashion is about your work, not about facilitating a lifestyle.

I've had a lot of opportunities to grow inside and out as a performer, artist, and a woman.

Music has done much more for me than I have for music.

There comes a point when you have to be more than an actor, and doing something else that means a lot to me has actually made me a stronger actor. It's stimulated something else in my brain and heart.

The more I learn and grow, the more I feel fulfilled, and even if I'm shooting a commercial for a car or a computer, I try to deliver a filmmaker's point of view where I can learn from the experience. Then I really enjoy it.

I have seen this whole process of films releasing, becoming hits or flops, for too long now to expect things to do well. If I expect a film to do well, then it is for somebody else's sake, not for my own. I do my work, and if you feel that my work is improving from film to film, then I have done my part of the job.

I'm glad I'm getting to do interesting films.

I just want to keep getting roles that challenge me to be the best actor and the best person I can be.

You are carving out a story. You and your colleagues are trying to make something that is bigger than yourself. Although it can be a scary experience because you're putting your work out on the line, it's also incredibly rewarding because a lot of it comes from you.

I want to work and work on better films, projects and myself.

I used to animate. I started in animation, and you'd end every day with at least one substantive contribution.

I've grown and changed, and I'm still making television and movies that I feel really proud of.

I keep rediscovering myself with every film. It is great to be doing that, it gives great satisfaction.

Don Siegel last advice to me was 'Don't short yourself.' He said the tendency is when an actor's directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you're going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you're satisfied with it.

My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home the bacon.

Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.

You need to reinvent yourself every day when you are doing creative work. I always say that the moment I feel I'm at the top of the mountain and I cannot do more, I would be finished. So that's why I always feel the earth quake beneath my feet. I always feel myself on the fire. Because I think this is something that gives you the right adrenaline to work and go forward in your professional life. I have reinvented myself, believe me, many times in my life!