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Lee Daniels
Lee Daniels
American Actor
Born: Dec 24, 1959
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When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar. Lee Daniels
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I am so used to having two faces. A face that I had for black America and a face for white America. When Obama became president, I lost both faces. Now I only have one face. Lee Daniels
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My work is therapeutic: 'Monster's Ball,' 'Woodsman' and 'Shadowboxer,' because I don't go to therapy, and I sort of live life through my films. Lee Daniels
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I don't know whether everybody likes the films that I do. I know that I love them, and I believe the way that I raise my kids that they will love them, and that's what most important to me. Lee Daniels
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I don't read the reviews, the blogs, or anything else. Instead, I feel the audience when I show the film. Lee Daniels
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It's hard for me to accept love. I wish I could lie to you and tell you that it's easy for me, but it's not. Lee Daniels
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I'm not Tyler Perry. I'm not Dino De Laurentis. I think it's a bit much to put one's name in front of the film. It makes me uncomfortable. Lee Daniels
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'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be. Lee Daniels
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I have twins that I didn't want to have the life that I had. I didn't have a great life growing up. Lee Daniels
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I drank from colored water fountains and from the white water fountain just to see what it was like when I was a kid. What shocks me is that these kids today don't realize that this happened in many of our lifetimes. Lee Daniels
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Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be. Lee Daniels
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I worked at Warner Bros. for a while. I was the head of the minority talent casting. It was like pre-Spike Lee and post-blaxploitation era. Lee Daniels
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I moved on to a nursing agency as a receptionist just to get a job, and ended up managing it, which led to me opening my own - say your mom is sick and needs someone to help her, then you call something like what I had: a home health agency. Lee Daniels
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People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down. Lee Daniels
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I was the oldest of five children, each about a year apart, and my mother, bless her heart, had her hands full. Lee Daniels
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I definitely caught the acting bug, but that lasted for about two seconds when I found my way to L.A. and found that my talents were better suited behind the cameras. Lee Daniels
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'Push' had a story, 'The Paperboy' story you could just throw up in the air and shoot holes through the book because the story wasn't as strong. But I felt the characters were stronger in 'The Paperboy'; they were vivid. Lee Daniels
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What attracts me to material are characters that I know - characters that I know people don't know but I know - and bringing them to the screen. Spotlighting voices that have not been heard before on screen. Lee Daniels
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When you're paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like putting on theater. Nicole Kidman is at craft services, and John Cusack is moving furniture; there are no egos. The only ego is the story. Lee Daniels
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Putting on a movie is like going to war - for me, at least. It's all about time; time is money, and we don't have it. So it's all about getting to know each other intimately quickly. You are with family members that you like or don't like, but you can't leave them because you're stuck with them. Lee Daniels
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