#background

I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere. ↗

— Mariah Carey

#anytime #anywhere #background #coming #could

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#always #background #comedy #i #musical

I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance. ↗

— Jon Favreau

#best #extra #get #guy #i

First of all it's usually women who run these higher primate sanctuaries, rarely men. They are white. They come from privileged backgrounds. They are educated. ↗

— Russell Banks

#come #educated #first #first of all #higher

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#aspects #background #cast #characters #clone

To fans in a festival setting it's like a picnic. You want to have a good time with your friends in that crowd. And in the background you hear the band play, 'Oh, that's my favorite song!' everyone is there to enjoy the afternoon and that's about it. ↗

— Tom Araya

#afternoon #background #band #crowd #enjoy

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear. ↗

— Christian Bale

#background #damn #disappear #fade #feel

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#backgrounds #country #different #different backgrounds #diversity

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

— Dorothy Allison

#am #background #class #class background #contempt

I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it. ↗

— Marc Anthony

#anybody #approach #background #come #defy