"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn’t have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay."
― Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Movies
More From Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- "What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells."
- "In athletics there’s always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you’re not cheating. I think that’s just a quirk of human nature."
- "I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream."
More In Movies
- "Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it’s not all that important to me anymore."― Dennis Quaid
- "People feel the worst film I made was ‘Jack.’ But to this day, when I get checks from old movies I’ve made, ‘Jack’ is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie, they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams."― Francis Ford Coppola
- "Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don’t think that there’s any real mystery there."― Joel Coen