Top 102 Quotes by Lee Daniels

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

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.

As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace.

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

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.

I love actors, and I'm very protective of them. I trust them. It's a mutual trust.

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

I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.