Top 30 Lamman Rucker Quotes

When you learn how to be really attentive, you learn the importance of patience and appreciating a woman. You’re able to appreciate the softness of her skin and the look in her eyes. It’s a connection.

Everything is a negotiation. Everything is a little bit of give and take.

Throughout my career, I wouldn’t say my roles have been based on my being considered eye candy.

I’m all about black folks working together and progressing together.

There’s no greater source of happiness than giving yourself to other people.

We’re human beings trying to love each other. There are constant revelations and room for growth.

I wanted to create a line for women and men alike that would encourage them to embrace the harmony and divine balance of sensuality and spirituality within all of us. Forplai is an opportunity to not only smell good and feel good, but to also take time to connect with the heavens above and the god in you.

I still play ball competitively because it helps keep me stay in shape.

I have a Masters and a technology degree already. When I’m not in film or television, my wheels are spinning full time.

Everybody is important. Everybody has something to give.

The perfect date is real simple. I wanna just spend a nice casual day walking in the park, playing on the swings… throwing bread crumbs to the ducks, really just chilling and getting to know each other and connecting with the real woman.

You can add five years to your lifespan by just making intelligent lifestyle choices.

I play real men that I can identify with. I have a lot of guys tell me that they relate to me because I represent the real, everyday dudes.

This is America, and everybody has the right to voice and to have an opinion and to have their commentary on things and people.

There’s nothing more fun than just walking through town or maybe going to a community-based festival. How much does that cost? Nothing!

I’ve always been attracted to more than just the way a woman looks and the way she’s shaped.

It’s great to go to work and your boss is a black man, one of your peers, you know?

It’s always a wonderful experience to keep working.

People have no concept of boundaries.

High blood pressure is a major health crisis in the black community.

A part of growing up in this international world is understanding and being prepared and having tools to adapt outside of the small environment that you may have come from. That’s what education is all about.

I’m a proud Ellington alum. It has everything to do with who I am.

I played ball in college and semi-professional, and aside from the game and all that, the most valuable thing is the relationships. Who can care how many rings you have or how many championships you’ve won or how many records you broke. The most valuable stuff is the intangible stuff.

No one likes to be typecast, but I would like to believe that the attention I get is for my acting, but at the same time, darn it, if I get to keep playing the handsome, smart guy, then that’s also a blessing, and it’s the last thing I would complain about.

When all is said and done, I want to die exhausted and empty because I gave everything that was in me. I believe that’s why we’re all here: to give of ourselves to one another to help create a better world, because you can’t take it with you.

Sometimes you can see a pilot, and then when the series starts, it’s different people. That’s always possible.

My ability to bring different characters to life is what has helped me advance in my career, and I would say as far as looks are concerned, well, I suppose that would be the icing on the cake, but acting comes first and foremost.

Black people are not often considered mainstream.

Man, my days in Oakdale were a whirlwind.

Just take one small victory at a time.