Taye Diggs quotes His role as Winston Shakespeare in 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back' (1998) Born: 01/02/1971 Country: usa

• All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. (Taye Diggs) [past]
• But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway. (Taye Diggs) [matter]
• Hollywood only lets a few of us in at a time only because audiences may not be ready to accept Black people as leading actors. (Taye Diggs) [time/people/actors]
• Honestly, when people ask me these questions it just tickles me because I wasn't like this in high school. I mean it was me, but I was thinner and nerdier, and didn't have as much confidence. (Taye Diggs) [people/high/school/confidence]
• I jump at any chance to go back into theater. (Taye Diggs) [chance]
• I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun. (Taye Diggs) [clothes]
• I really take pride in being able to say that I would have gotten that part whether or not Stella had ever existed because that's the kind of cat Doug Liman is. (Taye Diggs) [take/pride/being]
• I think that people were just more talented and well-rounded in the past because they had to be. (Taye Diggs) [think/people/more/past]
• I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by. (Taye Diggs) [love/film]
• I'm always up for going back to the stage. (Taye Diggs) [stage]
• In the forties, fifties, and sixties they were good singers, good actors, and good dancers. That's the school that I come from. (Taye Diggs) [singers/actors/school]
• It has been refreshing that the last four roles that I've done have not been so blatantly sexual with me being put on some imaginary pedestal. (Taye Diggs) [being]
• It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me. (Taye Diggs) [point/women]
• LA is so vapid. (Taye Diggs)
• Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me. (Taye Diggs) [night]
• Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me. (Taye Diggs) [role]
• On the set I never know what day of the week it is. (Taye Diggs) [day]
• So I don't know that I'm ready to add all that stress, but I definitely love to sing and if it were easy then I'd do it. (Taye Diggs) [stress/love]
• Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames. (Taye Diggs)
• The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man. (Taye Diggs) [being]
• The more people who see it, the more money you make. And the more money you make, the bigger a box office draw you are. (Taye Diggs) [more/people/more/money]
• The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie. (Taye Diggs) [people/more/movie]
• There's no white person I know that can say that they haven't been through what any of these Black characters are going through. (Taye Diggs)
• Whenever I do acting for film there's always a certain amount of altering I have to do to my style because it's so different. (Taye Diggs) [film/amount/literary style]
• You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays. (Taye Diggs) [type]
• You see someone who sings and you need to know whether or not they are going to have the mass appeal when they cross over. (Taye Diggs)

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