Elvis Mitchell quote: "Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the rage that the crucible of racism created."

No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the '...
ELVIS MITCHELL

When Bruce Lee gets his cameo in 'The Green Hornet' - as one of the drawings in Kato's n...
ELVIS MITCHELL

One of the best things Gwyneth Paltrow has done in years was her mesmerized, good-sport cameo in a &...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The documentary 'Certifiably Jonathan' has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It'...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The road back from degradation begins with self-awareness - and sometimes, as in 'Phone Booth,&#...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Muhammad Ali inside the ring and Muhammad Ali outside the ring were totally different men; his abras...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Mike Mignola's 'Hellboy' comics have a drizzly, musty gothic ambience - the same fetid a...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The title 'Spirited Away' could refer to what Disney has done on a corporate level to the re...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Mr. Miyazaki's specialty is taking a primal wish of kids, transporting them to a fantasyland, an...
ELVIS MITCHELL

If Mr. Chan ever makes another movie like 'The Tuxedo,' it's American audiences that wil...
ELVIS MITCHELL

What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a j...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Ice Cube went straight outta Compton to hearing, 'Are we there yet?' Eddie Murphy blew up st...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The action comedy 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl' raises one of the mos...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Miramax seems to be showing the same faith in Roberto Benigni's 'Pinocchio' that the Rep...
ELVIS MITCHELL

A little of the sketch character Pootie Tang went a long way on HBO's now late, probably soon to...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for 'Saturday Night Live,' has deftly adapted Rosalind...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'8 Mile' could do without an unnecessary class swipe. In a final throwdown, Rabbit clowns a ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Political perspective and the Cannes festival are linked almost as inextricably as fast-food consump...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Old School' is so breezy it could be a late-night talk show, especially when Craig Kilborn,...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Inarritu's own nomination for Best Director for 'Babel' was the first such honor for a M...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Ali' offers stunning re-creations of bouts Ali fought. In the second Liston fight, the audi...
ELVIS MITCHELL

I thought that, as a black audience member, I would like to see something that reflected an experien...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Man is an endangered species,' announces one of the titles at the beginning of the sci-fi l...
ELVIS MITCHELL

It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Since most of 'Mean Girls' consists of the outsider Cady observing the tribal rites of her n...
ELVIS MITCHELL

If you start off as a fearsome figure in pop culture, it's almost axiomatic that at some point, ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Natalie Portman's approach to acting demands that she wears her heart on her sleeve so explicitl...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. Th...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Duncan Jones has skills; he's an architect of emotional dislocation.
ELVIS MITCHELL

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we'r...
ELVIS MITCHELL

If a movie requires the lead actor to spend a good chunk of his onscreen time talking to himself, an...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Often, when Jim Carrey plays it straight, all of the vitality is drained from his face; he looks lik...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The director Sofia Coppola's new comic melodrama, 'Lost in Translation,' thoroughly and ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers&#...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The idea of Seth Rogen as the Green Hornet so inflaming the fanboy community is amusing, since that ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The picture is being promoted as Disney's 'Spirited Away,' although seeing just 10 minut...
ELVIS MITCHELL

His work isn't all glower. Even though he hasn't smiled in a movie since the underrated '...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Ali' is a breakthrough for its director, Michael Mann. The film, based on the life of Muham...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Like his countryman, Kiefer Sutherland, Seth Rogen has a voice that's 10 years older than he is ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Theron says that she was intrigued by the psychological demands of the material in playing the compl...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The Wachowskis' use of space rivals that of musical directors like Gene Kelly and Mark Sandrich.
ELVIS MITCHELL

The funniest thing in the world to me is the idea of a white guy in his thirties going, 'Wait - ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Black Hawk Down' wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged g...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The story of a proud Roman soldier who is sold into slavery and must fight his way back to freedom, ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

When an actor commits himself to a role as fully as Russell Crowe does in the grandiose and silly &#...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The battle scenes in 'Gladiator' don't have the exultant lift of Hong Kong period-action...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Infernal Affairs' uses a vibrating terseness usually found in the writer and director Micha...
ELVIS MITCHELL

You know what? As a black person, you see so much racism. Films are no different than the government...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Though narrative cohesion isn't the strength of 'Mean Girls,' which works better from sc...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Before he became 'a working actor,' as he now proudly calls himself, Jamie Dornan initially ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The stoic drama 'A Somewhat Gentle Man' is photographed in a palate of steel gray tones that...
ELVIS MITCHELL

It's more dangerous to be a friend or relative of Jackie Chan in the star's movies than it i...
ELVIS MITCHELL

It's so funny: whenever there's a new technology introduced, there's always this fear it...
ELVIS MITCHELL

I dress well. I travel; I seem to be relatively glamorous for a film guy - which, to me, is like bei...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Given how unflinching his productions have been, the 44-year-old McQueen is remarkably gentle and th...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like p...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The pleasantly crude 'Hall Pass' reminds us of what's been missing from movies: Those sq...
ELVIS MITCHELL

One of a handful of films made in Detroit, '8 Mile' doesn't feature the Motown renaissan...
ELVIS MITCHELL

In 'Training Day,' Mr. Washington's dry-ice grandeur - the predator's reflexes contr...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomeno...
ELVIS MITCHELL

People can be incredibly proprietary about Superman. They think that the character belongs to them.
ELVIS MITCHELL

Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman wit...
ELVIS MITCHELL

It's an oddity that will be avoided by millions of people, this new 'Pinocchio.' Osama b...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Performance art is really more of a command than an invitation.
ELVIS MITCHELL

In 'Windtalkers,' the director John Woo is meticulous in melding his own intimate style into...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Ali was the African-American who exulted in saying exactly what he was capable of, and the bouncing-...
ELVIS MITCHELL

In 'Requiem for a Dream,' the director Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr....
ELVIS MITCHELL

One of the funniest things about Mr. Kaufman is that all of his filmed scripts - 'Being John Mal...
ELVIS MITCHELL

One thing that I've noticed about big families is that they usually break down into two camps: t...
ELVIS MITCHELL

With his compulsively slamming lyrics and king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoes the exi...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Inarritu's films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simul...
ELVIS MITCHELL

The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Boat Trip' is more tiresome and dumb than actually bad.
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Va Savoir' is a lovable comedy about love that looks upon life as drama and uses the world ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

I'm honored to be asked by Stephanie Allain - whom I've long admired - to add to the scope o...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Pootie Tang' may be raw and slovenly - hey, it often is raw and slovenly - but it succeeds ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

'Plan Nine From Outer Space' for a new generation, 'Battlefield Earth' is set in the...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Whom do you feel sorrier for: the cast of 'Boat Trip' or their children? Remember, kids can ...
ELVIS MITCHELL

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.
ELVIS PRESLEY

'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two w...
ELVIS COSTELLO

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.
ELVIS PRESLEY

There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to ge...
ELVIS PRESLEY

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
ELVIS PRESLEY

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more year...
ELVIS PRESLEY

The army teaches boys to think like men.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Man, I really like Vegas.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.
ELVIS PRESLEY

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, pu...
ELVIS PRESLEY

I'll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I'll never feel easy smoking a cigare...
ELVIS PRESLEY

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and o...
ELVIS PRESLEY

I never expected to be anybody important.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundre...
ELVIS PRESLEY

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
ELVIS PRESLEY

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it...
ELVIS PRESLEY

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Ah just act the way ah feel.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
ELVIS COSTELLO

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
ELVIS COSTELLO

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public a...
ELVIS PRESLEY

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's w...
ELVIS PRESLEY

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
ELVIS PRESLEY

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the l...
ELVIS PRESLEY

And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write ...
ELVIS COSTELLO

I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm si...
ELVIS PRESLEY

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing th...
ELVIS PRESLEY

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got th...
ELVIS PRESLEY

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.
ELVIS COSTELLO

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strateg...
ELVIS COSTELLO

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hu...
ELVIS PRESLEY

I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going...
ELVIS COSTELLO

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn ...
ELVIS PRESLEY

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
ELVIS COSTELLO

Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.
ELVIS COSTELLO

When things go wrong, don't go with them.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I learned very early in life that: "Without a song, the day would never end; without a friend, a man...
ELVIS PRESLEY

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody . . . . Country musi...
ELVIS PRESLEY

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's a really stupid thing to want to do
ELVIS COSTELLO

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.
ELVIS STOJKO

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting th...
ELVIS COSTELLO

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happen...
ELVIS PRESLEY

People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. ...
ELVIS COSTELLO

I hear they're givin' you a bad reputation
just because you've never been denied.
You try ...
ELVIS COSTELLO

I find humming is very useful.
ELVIS COSTELLO

It was during Elvis' 18-month assignment in West Germany when he met Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, who was...
ELVIS PRESLEY

When I Was Cruel.
ELVIS COSTELLO

I'll stay in Memphis.
ELVIS PRESLEY

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big....
ELVIS PRESLEY

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production,...
ELVIS PRESLEY

It's a petty thing, but I wouldn't join the Scouts when I was a kid, 'cause you had to s...
ELVIS COSTELLO

I'm no hillbilly singer.
ELVIS PRESLEY

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
ELVIS PRESLEY

We were really looking for a fresh sound, and I think you can hear that with the use of electronics ...
ELVIS COSTELLO

There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groov...
ELVIS COSTELLO

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justific...
ELVIS COSTELLO

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious re...
ELVIS COSTELLO

I don't make no dirty movements
ELVIS PRESLEY

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
ELVIS PRESLEY

if u know how to use your mind , you dont need a million bucks to make you feel like your in paradis...
ELVIS HODZIC

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at he...
ELVIS PRESLEY

When things go bad, don't go with them.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.
ELVIS COSTELLO

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Just a minute,
ELVIS PRESLEY

I ain't no saint, but I have tried never to do anything that would hurt my family or offend God. I f...
ELVIS PRESLEY

Seems to me, that the worlds are moving closer together rather than one invading the other. I believ...
ELVIS COSTELLO

The words that are being spoken are serious, whether you take them at face value or listen to them a...
ELVIS COSTELLO

We have to speak up now,
ELVIS COSTELLO

There's no such thing as an original sin.
ELVIS COSTELLO

When the media attention switches away from this story onto the next thing that happens in the world...
ELVIS COSTELLO

The songs will tell a story that I have imagined existing between the lines of Andersen's biography ...
ELVIS COSTELLO

I've been asked to sing and that's what I do. People come (to this event) for all the right reasons.
ELVIS COSTELLO

Then I recalled that Andersen belongs to the world,
ELVIS COSTELLO

This rally looks sustainable because the gains are smaller. It is not like you have a 250-point gain...
ELVIS PICARDO

I just hope we keep in our minds that an effort like this can never be too expensive.
ELVIS COSTELLO

It would be a surprise if people thought I would be playing a lot of rock 'n' roll.
ELVIS COSTELLO

[Commercial radio] is owned by one or two corporations now, and they're not in the music business. T...
ELVIS COSTELLO

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Look guys, if you're just going to stare at me, I'm going to bed!
ELVIS PRESLEY

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go away.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I learned a lot from 'Elvis' because it wasn't just the impersonator I had to watch,
ELVIS PRESLEY

Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth)
ELVIS PRESLEY

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
ELVIS COSTELLO

When things go wrong don't go with them
ELVIS PRESLEY

The image is one thing and the human being is another...It's very hard to live up to an image, put i...
ELVIS PRESLEY

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happ...
ELVIS PRESLEY

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside
ELVIS PRESLEY

Do what's right for you, as long as it don't hurt no one
ELVIS PRESLEY

A Sharon.
ELVIS PRESLEY

It more or less puts your mind at ease, ... It does mine.
ELVIS PRESLEY

I am hands on with this with Bruno,
ELVIS PRESLEY

The interior of the car consists of reupholstered seats, as well as Elvis' initials on the inside of...
ELVIS PRESLEY

better stick to driving trucks.
ELVIS PRESLEY

You got change, man?
ELVIS PRESLEY

We're all just waiting to see what changes, if any, will be made,
ELVIS PRESLEY

Illusions of The King.
ELVIS PRESLEY

and I got the collection my Mother had, and I can't sell any of it.
ELVIS PRESLEY

Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I j...
ELVIS PRESLEY

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and o...
ELVIS PRESLEY

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch "Rebel Without a Cause" a hund...
ELVIS PRESLEY

The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the ye...
ELVIS PRESLEY

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time
ELVIS PRESLEY

Only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one
ELVIS PRESLEY

If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dolla...
ELVIS PRESLEY

Berry was a transitional and, to my mind, revolutionary black figure who had to find a place for the rage that the crucible of racism created.

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