Best 168 quotes in «backgrounds quotes» category

I'm proud of my background, so I hope there will be more roles where Hispanics are being portrayed

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to it, actually.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background

I never want to hide my wrestling background.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

I studied movies for many years, but I am professionally an actor because I, my background is actually a stage actor and acting.

Inspiration, it is well recognized, rarely comes unless an individual has immersed himself in the subject. He must have a rich background of knowledge and experience in it.

It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it.

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

It's something that - jazz is one of the few things that you can go and listen to, I don't care where you're from, what you are, what background you come from - there's something there for you.

It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.

It was really wonderful playing with Aretha [ Franklin]. I knew that she knew what she was doing, so all I had to do was sit in the background and vamp a little bit.

I think that notion of being a seeker, somebody who never felt totally fulfilled, but was always passionate about the search, that comes from the background, probably.

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.

I've sung background for a couple of bands.

I was asked to sing with Mavis Staples on a gospel compilation called 'Oh Happy Day.' And, you know, other than being totally intimidated at the prospect of singing with Mavis, I was honored. I don't really have much of a background in gospel music.

I wasn't a great background singer.

I was quite a shy child – not chronically, but I tended to blend into the background.

I want to see an open and tolerant society here in the United Kingdom, I want to see a country that works for everyone whatever their background.

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

Jazz is not background music.

Journalism talk is part of the nonstop background noise of American life.

My background is degradation and sloth, mostly.

Most of the time I was in the background. I never played [the Virgin] Mary. I was always kind of the third angel.

My background has been very helpful for this experience. But everyone was so accommodating because they knew it's not the most comfortable position to be the new kid.

My background is in health care.

My background is Scottish.

My background is in musical comedy.

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing

My family background was deeply Christian.

My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

My background is that I've spent a lot of time marketing entertainment. One of the old saws in package goods is you can take something that is popular and you can make it more popular. But if you take something less popular, you can't automatically market it into the same success as something that's already popular.

My background was in performing originally.

My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

My own background is fairly liberal and so this notion of 'protecting women from outside intrusion' is not in my nature, nor in my upbringing.

Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,” Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me.

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family's heritage, another to hear it from him.

O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

One of Boomer's strong points is that he has a great background in just about everything.