Top 102 Quotes by Lee Daniels

'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be.

I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break.

I had 'Push' and 'The Paperboy' next to my bed for many years. Those are some of the great, great novels.

At 19, I was in the streets making money. I was surviving.

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.

I come from a family of servants. My father's father was a servant, and my father's father's father was a slave.

My mission is to let black kids know that their dreams can happen.

My dad was a cop. My mom worked at various jobs - she worked as a homemaker, a bank teller, a bartender.

Rarely do celebrities and actors speak up for what they believe in.

I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting.