- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brother Quotes
On brothers, mentorship, and family loyalty.
Some of these quotes are about literal brothers and the private fears or gratitude that come with that bond; others use 'brother' more loosely, for a mentor or a fellow actor's catchphrase about faith. Looking for something shareable? Try Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.
- Offensive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!
- American Movies
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- Nov 07, 2020
My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we got to see just about every movie that came out for a period of years.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was skint, and I had to move back to my mum and dad's house, back into the room I shared with my brother when I was a kid. I kept getting people on the streets telling me that they loved me; it didn't mean anything to me because I was still borrowing tenners off my pensioner father to go and get some chicken.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, me and my brother got a video camera, and he used to direct and I used to act. We used to make these silly, stupid short films, which, looking back now, were probably horrible.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.
- Today
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- Nov 07, 2020
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really good to have so distinctive a name as an actress. No one ever forgets it. My sister and brother are called Perdita and Rollo. Actually, my family calls me 'Hollyhocks.'
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've grown up watching Dad setting and breaking records - my brother Sam was born when Dad was halfway across the Atlantic, going after a record.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles - is not doing well, then I'm not doing very well.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
With my first book, 'A Letter to a Young Brother,' I figured it would be my only book I was ever going to write. What happened with that is a lot of young men would reach out to me.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father passed from cancer in 2000; his brother died of cancer before that. My grandfather died of cancer.
- Citing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first two books, 'Letters to a Young Brother' and 'Letters to a Young Sister,' were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020