The best Quotes by Damon Wayans

The best Quotes by Damon Wayans

Damon Kyle Wayans (born September 4, 1960) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and writer. Wayans performed as a comedian and actor throughout the 1980s, including a year-long stint on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live.

Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.

Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

All the family gatherings, I'm too tired, or I can't because it conflicts with work... I have seven grandkids. I've been missing recitals and graduations. To me, it's just not worth it. There is a better way to live life.

Junior is such a great guy. He's the new and improved model. It's a beautiful thing. That's what you train your children to do. He's an inspiration to his brothers and sisters and nieces and nephews who say it's too hard living up to the family name.

The beautiful thing about having family that has diabetes is knowing what not to do. I got an uncle that thinks insulin is supposed to enable him to eat cake.

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No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11

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Sex New York City

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

Grüner Kobold in Spider-Man

2

Fame New York City

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

2

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 3

2

New York City Manhatten

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

1

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 5

1

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Bill de Blasio

Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

Jordan Klepper in The Daily Show - Debates Anti-Vax Mandate Protesters in NYC

Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!

Ronny Chieng in The Daily Show

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

Nicole Scherzinger

Ambition Egoism

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is the best.

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Louis de Funès

2

Laughing & Smile

Stop that! I'm your boss...- uhm: husband!

Louis de Funès - Der Querkopf

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

Emma Watson

4

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

Emma Watson

3

Self-Confidence

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orson Welles

1

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

Orson Welles

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

Anthony Hopkins

1

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

Anthony Hopkins

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

Emilia Clarke

I came out of my mum's stomach going, "I want to be an actor!"

Emilia Clarke

We think too much and feel too little.

Charlie Chaplin

14

Thinking Feelings & Emotions

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

Charlie Chaplin

13

Crying & Tears Rain

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

Jackie Chan

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

Jackie Chan

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

Klaus Kinski

1

Failures & Mistakes

I only drink with people I like. When meeting people I don't like, I drink right before.

Klaus Kinski

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Bruce Willis

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.

Bruce Willis

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

Keanu Reeves

1

The Kardashians

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

Keanu Reeves

3

Relationships Falling in love

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

Samuel L. Jackson

Barack Obama 2008

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

Samuel L. Jackson

Wealth & Richness

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

Johnny Depp

63

Heart Feelings & Emotions Seeing

If you love two people at the same time, choose the second one, because if you really loved the first one you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

Johnny Depp

43

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, "I should be there; I should be helping out."

Paul Walker

Indonesia Helping

As you go through the grind and the distraction of a career, it's easy to lose sight of your dreams.

Paul Walker

3

Dreaming Career

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

3

Love declerations

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

2

Character Self-Confidence

Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me.

Robin Williams

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Robin Williams

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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