Top 91 Quotes & Sayings by Malik Yoba - Page 2

When you do a pilot, you can't always tell what you have.

Fantasies are not always what people think they are.

I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.

I come up from a music background.

I'm happy with getting older and getting more focused. I thought I was focused when I was young, but you're only as focused as experience will allow you to be.

In my experience on 'New York Undercover,' where I played a dad, I was 26 years old, and I didn't have kids then. And at that time, it would blow me away that people said they became a better parent because of watching my role on that TV show.

The things I'm most excited about are projects I'm producing. But if a director I'd love to work with calls, I'm always game.

I know that my fans, who have followed me for years, want to know what I'm doing.

When I'm doing a role the one thing I ask is 'Is this believable? am I being truthful?'

I'm a dad; I started a program for young men when my first child was born.

People think acting is just memorizing lines and doing facial expressions. No it's about traveling along a path of discovery, intention and connection.

The issues that black men face oftentimes are the issues that everyone faces. Do you have the ability to be present? Are you working on yourself? Do you understand what it means to be a man? To be responsible, loving, vulnerable?

We didn't even have a T.V. in my house until I was 13. My dad called it the 'idiot box.'

When you engage with people as an artist you know exactly what they feel and what they're thinking.

At the end of the day, people like drama - if everything is great, no one wants to hear about that.

If you go back and look at the pilot of 'Seinfeld,' no one would have thought that show would be what it became, and television isn't given that kind of chance anymore.

At the end of the day, there's so much work that has to be done to impact positive change in any direction you look.

It's very rare that Black actors get an opportunity to do period pieces and to have a breadth of characters to choose from in their work.

Playing Martin Luther King Jr. was an honor for me on so many levels. It was the most I've ever prepared for a role.

I like working with great talent, in every capacity. I have a rule of thumb, in any creative endeavor - whether I'm doing music and playing in a band, or working with producers, or directing - where I generally like to work with people who are smarter than me or better than me.

The world is changing and how we reach people has changed. It's no longer throwing ads on your network and putting up billboards. It's now social media and things move virally, and the networks haven't always caught up to that.

There's a lot that I'd love to do. I haven't had a chance to really show the breadth of my talent, so I look forward to that.

And, to help society at large to understand that in the equation of life, fathers are of equal importance as mothers.

You can't be an FBI agent without being cautious and thinking things through. That's just part of the training.

I think any time you have any kind of social ill, not just domestic violence...as much as it's about the act, the obvious theme of domestic violence, Domestic Violence Awareness Month is also about how men deal with their emotions. It's not just like who gets brutalized; sometimes it's women that are abusing men, too. I think it's just an opportunity for us to look at ourselves. How do we treat each other? Why do we treat each other that way?

Drs. Pinkett and Robinson choose to BE the message that they bring! They don't just enumerate the problems but offer solid solutions for navigating pathways to business ownership, and the halls and boardrooms of previously 'all white' corporate America. Black Faces in White Places is a necessary tool for anyone trying to make their own magic happen.

If you love yourself, if you truly love yourself, then you'll see other people in yourself, and you won't behave that way.

Directing is kind of like acting through other people. You see moments and you see things and if you don't see the actors hit it, you paint in those little spaces and tell them what direction to go in.

Because I've always aspired to direct and produce, I've literally worked with about 200 directors and countless producers, so what I appreciate is how, through osmosis and through actually asking questions and through people offering wisdom, there's a lot in there.

Almost every single person that I've worked with - whether it's been George Clooney or Robert DeNiro or Harvey Keitel, or whoever - the quality that I find that's most consistent in most of the people is the humility.

I never like to be the person trying to hard sell, saying, "This is why you should watch it." I know that my fans, who have followed me for years, want to know what I'm doing.