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- Nov 07, 2020
Purple Quotes
From Deep Purple to the silver screen.
This collection ties the color purple to memory and craft, from bands remembered fondly to actors recalling their time filming 'The Color Purple,' a touchstone many revisit through beautiful reflections.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
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My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of 'The Color Purple.' It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.
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He asked me whether I had seen the movie 'The Color Purple.' I said no she hadn't. And Bobby said, 'Well, it's a terrible picture. They don't make good, decent, moral pictures nowadays.'
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When I was 20 years old, my mom flew me for my first Broadway audition for 'The Color Purple,' and I only found out about it because I knew that Fantasia was in it, and so I went online to ActorsEquity.com. I was not a part of the union, but I flew there for the audition, and the next week I made my Broadway debut!
- Nov 07, 2020
Purple and yellow are my colors.
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In 2007, Prince performed at the halftime of the Super Bowl. The stage in Miami was wreathed in purple light, and it poured during his performance, so that he played 'Purple Rain' in a purple rain.
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I just love the color purple on me, because it goes really well with my eye color.
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He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
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I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.
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Every now and then, Prince decides to try being a normal rock star. You know, the kind who does a professional arena tour where he plays the hits. But part of what makes him such an eternally fascinating star is that he lives in his own private purple world, even when he sets out to make the house quake.
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We have a thousand hydrangea plants bordering the house, and they were all supposed to be pink, but a handful of them keep turning purple.
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I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!
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- Nov 07, 2020