Angel Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 8, 2024
‘All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.’ – Abraham Lincoln
‘I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.’ – Michelangelo
‘Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.’ – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
‘I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.’ – Marilyn Monroe
‘Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.’ – Edmund Spenser
‘No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.’ – Paulo Coelho
‘My angels watch over me every day. Make sure I’m on the right path. I might be a angel.’ – NLE Choppa
‘I’m just looking for an angel with a broken wing.’ – Jimmy Page
‘The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.’ – James Allen
‘War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.’ – Rebecca Harding Davis
‘I’m not a saint. I’m not an angel. I’m a human being.’ – Annie Lennox
‘What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.’ – William Shakespeare
‘An angel of God never has wings.’ – Joseph Smith, Jr.
‘I’m no angel, but I’m no monster, either.’ – R. Kelly
‘I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I’m an angel.’ – Sean Combs
‘You don’t have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.’ – Patti LaBelle
‘The way people come into your life when you need them, it’s wonderful and it happens in so many ways. It’s like having an angel. Somebody comes along and helps you get right.’ – Stevie Ray Vaughan
‘Philosophy will clip an angel’s wings.’ – John Keats
‘Monsters will always exist. There’s one inside each of us. But an angel lives there, too. There is no more important agenda than figuring out how to slay one and nurture the other.’ – Jacqueline Novogratz
‘I think we all do have a guardian angel. I believe they work through us all the time, when we are thoughtful and good and kind to each other.’ – Roma Downey
‘Home – that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings.’ – Lydia M. Child
‘The peasant must always be helped technically, economically, morally and culturally. The guerrilla fighter will be a sort of guiding angel who has fallen into the zone, helping the poor always and bothering the rich as little as possible in the first phases of the war.’ – Che Guevara
‘Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance.’ – Nostradamus
‘He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.’ – Raymond Chandler
‘Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.’ – Terry Pratchett
‘I’ve had an angel on my shoulder all my life.’ – Barbara Hale
‘Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.’ – B. C. Forbes
‘It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.’ – James Hillman
‘An angel has no memory.’ – Terry Southern
‘Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.’ – Doris Lessing
‘When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.’ – Denzel Washington
‘Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.’ – Voltaire
‘My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said, ‘Mom, I’m not going to be sick anymore,’ and she said ‘Why?’ and I said ‘Because an angel told me so.’ Now, I don’t remember saying it; that’s just what she told me.’ – Prince
‘When we are touched by something it’s as if we’re being brushed by an angel’s wings.’ – Rita Dove
‘The Hudson’s Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north.’ – Ernest Thompson Seton
‘Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.’ – Madeleine L’Engle
‘Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel’s song, which had lost its way and come on Earth, and sang on undyingly, smiting the hearts of men with sweetest wounds, and putting for the while an angel’s nature into us.’ – Frederick William Faber
‘I don’t believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It’s on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it’s supposed to give you a parking space. It’s worked so far.’ – Billy Connolly
‘We cannot pass our guardian angel’s bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.’ – Saint Augustine
‘When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived – my mother said I had a guardian angel.’ – Micky Dolenz
‘To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.’ – George Whitefield
‘I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal.’ – Kevin Hart
‘She’s definitely an angel sent from above. How can that not rub off on a man? What can I say? I’m a mama’s boy.’ – Brantley Gilbert
‘I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn’t ask for one. One was assigned to me.’ – Mercedes McCambridge
‘A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel.’ – Eva Amurri
‘I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.’ – Agnes Macphail
‘A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
‘The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.’ – Fanny Crosby
‘Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.’ – A. N. Wilson
‘In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.’ – George Bernard Shaw
‘I just live my life how I live as a person. I certainly am not, like, a saint or an angel by any means. I’m not anything like that. But I live just how I live. I mean, I have a little paranoia, but that’s about it.’ – Emma Stone
‘Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name.’ – Alice Meynell
‘Mind you, I’ve always been musical… Mother used to sit me on her knee and I’d whisper, ‘Mummy, Mummy, sing me a lullaby do,’ and she’d say: ‘Certainly my angel, my wee bundle of happiness, hold my beer while I fetch me banjo.” – Les Dawson
‘I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.’ – Vince Neil
‘Grace, like an angel of mercy, makes his voice heard sweet and clear, repeating the story of the cross, the matchless love of Jesus.’ – Ellen G. White
‘If people want to take the chance to watch, to see what I bring and try to use it to better themselves, yeah, OK. But I’m not one of these guys who’s going to try to be a role model and be an angel because I want to get a Nike sponsorship.’ – Israel Adesanya
‘This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.’ – Origen
‘Selena is my angel. She is my biggest inspiration. Being from San Antonio, Texas, I really feel that connection to her because she had a lot of performances and a lot of her most iconic performances in San Antonio. Back in my hometown, we love her. We all, as a community, celebrate her and adore her. We keep her memory alive.’ – Ally Brooke
‘When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.’ – Horace Mann
‘The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.’ – Otto Weininger
‘The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda
‘A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.’ – Albert Schweitzer
‘I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.’ – Maria Callas
‘I ain’t good-lookin’, but I’m somebody’s angel child.’ – Bessie Smith
‘There’s a part of me that will always believe that Angel is Buffy’s true love. That there will be a piece of her heart that will always be with him for the rest of her life.’ – Sarah Michelle Gellar
‘When people call me God, I say, no, I’m still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.’ – Shah Rukh Khan
‘I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.’ – Desmond Morris
‘I think that someone is watching out for me, God, my guardian angel, I’m not sure who that is, but they really work hard.’ – Mattie Stepanek
‘I had a dream, in 1985, I believe, when a friend I’d gone to school with was sick – one of the first people I knew who’d gotten the AIDS virus. I had a dream of him in his bedroom with an angel crashing through the ceiling. I wrote a poem called ‘Angels in America.’ I’ve never looked at the poem since the day I wrote it.’ – Tony Kushner
‘Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel’s face.’ – Lydia M. Child
‘A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother’s love.’ – Thomas Chandler Haliburton
‘I’ve read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of ‘You Can’t Go Home Again’ and ‘Look Homeward, Angel.” – Maya Angelou
‘On my back, I have the cross and angel wings: rise above it, no matter what life throws at you. And also, you know, Jesus rose from the grave.’ – Lewis Hamilton
‘People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.’ – Andre Maurois
‘Angel cake is an American classic; a delicate meringue gently merged with minimal flour and zero butter, angelic because of its fluffy texture.’ – Rachel Khoo
‘In ’57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door.’ – Carol Burnett
‘I just don’t want people to think I’m too sweet of a boy; and little miss angel boy, because I’m going to get caught doing somebody horrible.’ – Michael Buble
‘O’ What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!’ – William Shakespeare
‘Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.’ – Robert Burton
‘Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
‘Some part of me hopes for a guardian angel to protect me and other people who need protection.’ – Ezra Furman
‘I’d like to think little miracles do happen in ‘Angel Cake.” – Sarah Lancashire
‘I’m no angel.’ – Britt Ekland
‘So, I’m going to go over on Angel. Joss is just going to find a way to keep me bleaching my hair, which is fine.’ – James Marsters
‘In planes, I used to try to look behind the clouds to see if I saw an angel.’ – Kerry Kennedy
‘The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.’ – Kevin Rose
‘I almost stand in awe when I think of Joseph Smith. The angel appeared to him in 1823 – he said to this simple little boy, ‘Your name should be known for good and evil throughout the entire world.” – Gordon B. Hinckley
‘I’m more of a cynic, but my husband loves ‘Rent.’ For Valentine’s Day, I got him a ‘Rent’ walking tour. All it was was a man pulling up photos from the movie on his phone and going, like, ‘In the movie, they go to Life Cafe.’ And then he took us to a thrift store and it was, like, ‘Angel wore a coat you could probably find in a thrift store.” – Heidi Gardner
‘My first role was an angel in the nursery nativity. I spotted my mum halfway through and shouted over someone else’s lines to ask if she liked my costume. I’ve learnt not to do that now.’ – Emily Berrington
”Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.’ – William Makepeace Thackeray
‘I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like… ‘Really, are you badly behaved with other people?’ I was like, ‘No, not at all.’ But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.’ – Kajol
‘Many men say: ‘If I could only see an angel, if I could only hear an angel proclaim something, that would cause me to be faithful all the days of my life!” – Heber J. Grant
‘In the Christian world… it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.’ – Emanuel Swedenborg
‘The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.’ – James Hillman
‘An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.’ – Leo Rosten
‘When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.’ – Marge Piercy
‘I’m a very active angel investor in a number of different companies.’ – David Draiman
‘Being a Victoria’s Secret Angel has really built up my confidence. It’s such an exciting thing to be able to do as a model. It’s the best thing you can possibly do. It’s such a special feeling that it’s something so hard to actually describe.’ – Stella Maxwell
‘People in planes said: ‘Ah, no need to be afraid, because with you here, nothing can happen. Now we are safe.’ Or a mother said to her child: ‘Look, there’s your guardian angel.’ They weren’t joking. That was an amazing feeling. I loved that. Because that means much more than people saying, ‘You are a very good actor,’ or ‘I love your work.” – Bruno Ganz
‘My mom’s an angel, bless her heart, for everything I put her through.’ – Brantley Gilbert
‘If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.’ – Nathaniel Parker Willis
‘Recently, I read a quote which said that if a woman is beautiful, she’s called an Angel’ in English and a Bapu Bomma’ in Telugu. I think that sums up the legacy he has left behind.’ – Pranitha Subhash
‘When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.’ – Madeleine L’Engle
‘Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.’ – Herbert Gold
‘I wanted to get an angel wings tatooed on my back, as a guardian thing.’ – Kirsten Dunst
‘Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.’ – Thomas Moore
‘I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.’ – Havelock Ellis
‘To me, Garth, he’s kind of like my guardian angel. It’s like every time I need some help, he’s there.’ – Chris LeDoux
‘I like to think I play rugby as it should be played – there are no yellow or red cards in my collection – but I cannot say I’m an angel.’ – Jonny Wilkinson
‘I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I’m this guy who comes in from book – and movie – land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.’ – Richard Price
‘Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru’ all creation.’ – Robert Bridges
‘Yes, but I don’t think of the Teen Angel as of an age.’ – Frankie Avalon
‘Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I’ve been asked to endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children.’ – Roma Downey
‘My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn’t talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.’ – Jayne Meadows
‘If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.’ – Matthew Simpson
‘When we play ‘Angel of Death’, it’s actually a 2 and half minutes sing ’til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end.’ – Kerry King
‘Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.’ – Martha Beck
‘Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he’ll do. He helped me greatly.’ – Rip Taylor
‘I worked with her on the second season of Dark Angel in Vancouver, one of my first real jobs.’ – Ashley Scott
‘I directed an episode of Touched by an Angel a couple of months ago, and I will be doing more of that. I just like to keep a bit of variety going; it keeps things interesting.’ – Gregory Harrison
‘I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them.’ – Dian Fossey
‘Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil’s first movie and my first movie.’ – Stephen Rea
‘I still drink vodka; I’m not an advocate of drinking, but I’m no angel. I don’t like grass, because it just makes me hungry.’ – Calvin Klein
‘I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made… I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.’ – Val Guest
‘You get to know them, they get to know you and see if they like you. Then they’ll vote on you to become a prospect. You have to be sponsored by a Hells Angel.’ – Chuck Zito
‘Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.’ – Chuck Zito
‘I don’t count that relationship with Ricky. It’s just like a blip at this point. I had to fall in love with the devil himself to get this sweet angel, Jack.’ – Christie Brinkley
‘My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.’ – Edie Brickell
‘I’ve been making the best movies at Elegant Angel since Tom Byron left.’ – Marc Wallice
‘One needs a Seer’s Vision and an Angel’s voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure.’ – Sarojini Naidu
‘I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad’s an angel.’ – Courtney Love
‘An angel’s arm can’t snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can’t confine me there.’ – Edward Young
‘Buffy loves Angel. He loves her. And I love Ho Hos.’ – Joss Whedon
‘I’m an angel compared to some of my friends.’ – Lindsay Lohan
‘I don’t think people will ever forget I was an ‘Angel’, anymore than they’ll forget Sally Field was ‘The Flying Nun.” – Cheryl Ladd
‘We played hard and we partied hard. I’m not ashamed of that. I was no angel – I did some things I shouldn’t have done, lived a lifestyle I shouldn’t have lived. I had a blast at times; other times, I probably compromised my job, my duty to do my job, to be ready as a professional.’ – David Cone
‘The day I got my first letter from a fan, I felt like I’d been touched by an angel.’ – Selena Gomez
‘I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn’t get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn’t get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.’ – Nicole Kidman
‘My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.’ – Arlen Specter
‘We all have that capacity, to be two things. And after all I was named for both the devil and the angel. Demonio y angel. Dem-y-an.’ – Demian Bichir
‘We have a demon, we have an angel inside, within our souls, and you just play with it, and sometimes the evil part of you wins the battle, in a very important decision, or in a bedtime, with your lover. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.’ – Demian Bichir
‘I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.’ – Malcolm X
‘I’m at the age where I just want to experiment. You know, play a crime investigator one week, a pregnant girl one week, an angel of darkness another week. I don’t want to define myself by any category, or age, or role.’ – Leven Rambin
‘When a girl finally texts me back, that ding on the phone is like an angel singing.’ – Isaiah Mustafa
‘My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I’d never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the ‘Buffy’ and ‘Angel’ writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.’ – Nathan Fillion
‘I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.’ – Sister Souljah
‘I’m no saint. I’m no angel. I never proclaimed to be.’ – Chad Johnson
‘With ‘The Angel’s Game’, there was a lot of pressure from the expectations – expectations from the book industry and from readers; it’s natural.’ – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
‘The Supreme Being I would sign up for would not prove his omnipotence by saving one life while ending dozens, or hundreds, or thousands. Nor would he summon an angel to heaven by ending a first grader’s life at the hands of a gunman or sadist.’ – Jeff Greenfield
‘The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, ‘Are you kidding me? They’re just kids, and they’ve done so much.” – Alexis Ohanian
‘My first paying job was guest starring in ‘Touched By An Angel’ when I was 12. It was very exciting. I couldn’t believe you got free food all day and people were so nice to you.’ – Mary Elizabeth Winstead
‘People say, ‘You look like the girl who used to be on that show ‘Angel’ – they don’t actually think I’m her.’ – Amy Acker
‘One thing I’d like to do is angel investing in small companies. That’s what’s exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.’ – Nick D’Aloisio
”Angel Heart’ was one of my favorite films.’ – Darren Aronofsky
‘When I first met Alan Parker, who directed ‘Angel Heart,’ he’d heard so many horror stories about me that he was literally scared to death of me. Right away, he sat me down and said, ‘I’m very scared of you. I’ve heard you’re a very bad boy.” – Mickey Rourke
‘I’m attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke through the living room ceiling and offered to exchange them for other, better children, I’d cling to my kids and pray away this specter.’ – Andrew Solomon
‘The supposed revelations of God to humanity through Christ, or the word of God to Mohammed through the angel Gabriel, had the power they did because they indicated new truths, new directions for followers.’ – Julian Baggini
‘I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother.’ – Sheridan Smith
‘I have been very fortunate in my life. I think I have an angel that is always with me. Good projects always come to me.’ – Kate del Castillo
‘I married somebody half my age, and everybody thought I was crazy, but she is just an absolute angel.’ – Dick Van Dyke
‘It’s funny that a lot of the fans of ‘Angel’ have come over and hung out with me on ‘Leverage.’ I was so fortunate to have been on that show. It created one of the best fan groups ever. I just have the best fans in the world.’ – Christian Kane
‘On ‘Angel’ I got to work a lot with Mike Massa, who was David Boreanaz’ stunt double, and Mike would let me do most of my stuff by myself. I did almost all my fight scenes by myself.’ – Christian Kane
‘Joss Whedon who created ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer,’ ‘Angel,’ and all that… he is a genius.’ – Christian Kane
‘I do love my wine. I’d opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.’ – Rachel Nichols
‘A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, ‘Pinocchio’ or ‘Bambi’ or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing ‘The Blue Angel’ and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world – that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.’ – Sam Taylor-Johnson
”Buffy’ is about growing up. ‘Angel’ is really about already having grown up, dealing with what you’ve done, and redemption.’ – Joss Whedon
‘I’ve already lived the lives of ten people. My father’s 87 and still going strong. I think there’s a lovely angel watching over me.’ – David Hasselhoff
‘It’s fun for me to go on other folks’ talk shows. When you’ve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.’ – Dick Cavett
‘People call me crazy and a madman. Even ‘Tasmanian Devil.’ I’d rather be called the ‘Tasmanian Angel.” – Troy Polamalu
‘I thought I had to help people get me, but I don’t think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me, that is cool. I don’t need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.’ – Laura Mvula
‘If I had to pick one song for me that sort of quintessentially summed me up, it would be ‘Angel.’ Without fail, I absolutely love singing it.’ – Sarah McLachlan
‘I went to Phoenix, Arizona for ‘Angel Unchained,’ and they’d hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.’ – Larry Bishop
‘If you don’t have savings, and your co-founders are as poor as you are, and if Mom and Dad won’t loan you money, then your best bet is to find people that know you – your friends. If they, too, won’t help, then you’re stuck seeking out angel investors.’ – Vivek Wadhwa
‘Ultimately, I’m in the fitness industry. But, I’ve branched out from there quite a bit. I began doing consulting on writing and getting published in magazines in about 2011. Right around that time, I started doing some angel investing and looking to grow my skills and general experience outside of that.’ – John Romaniello
‘Personally, I don’t want to do a lot of angel deals in a year. I get approached a lot. I’m becoming less and less polite, which doesn’t seem to be helping. A lot of the things I get pitched on are from people who just want to make money.’ – Jim McKelvey
‘Tuppence was what my grandmother nicknamed my mother, so she gave it to me. My sister is called Angel, and my brother was going to be called Bubba or Sonny, until they let me and my sister name him Josh.’ – Tuppence Middleton
‘Portishead’s production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there’s this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like ‘It’s A Fire.’ That’s a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.’ – Anders Holm
‘The Project Angel Food Program’s mission is to nourish the body and spirit of men, women and children affected by HIV/AIDS and other serious illness. The Project Angel Food Program delivers free and nutritious meals prepared with love. We act out of a sense of urgency because hunger and illness cannot wait.’ – Marianne Williamson
‘I’ve been told by the BBC that if I make one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time, I will be sacked. And even the angel Gabriel would struggle to survive with that hanging over his head. It’s inevitable that one day, someone, somewhere will say that I’ve offended them, and that will be that.’ – Jeremy Clarkson
‘I’ve been lucky between ‘Buffy,’ ‘Angel,’ ‘Alias,’ and then ‘Lost.’ The thing they all have in common is that they were all fearless. They were not afraid to be different and try something different. Even if you didn’t know that it was going to work, just try to do something new and fresh.’ – Drew Goddard
‘If you and I desire the blessings of life, of health, of vigor of body and mind; if we desire the destroying angel to pass us by, as he did in the days of the children of Israel, we must obey the Word of Wisdom; then God is bound, and the blessing shall come to us.’ – Heber J. Grant
‘I can remember that on the shelves at home, there were these books by Thomas Wolfe. ‘Look Homeward Angel’ and ‘Of Time and the River.’ ‘Of Time and the River’ had just come out when I was aware of his name. My parents had a hard time convincing me that he was no kin whatsoever. My attitude was, ‘Well, what’s he doing on the shelf, then?” – Tom Wolfe
‘I’m really proud of an independent movie called ‘Angel’s Perch’ that you can get now on demand. It’s a labor of love. People worked really, really hard, and it’s a beautiful film.’ – Ashley Jones
‘Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings.’ – Hannah Murray
‘I got to work with Paul Walker. He’s an angel. He was so sweet.’ – Greg Cipes
‘The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this ‘Blonde Angel Image’. The rebel in me demanded a new color.’ – Magdalena Neuner
‘It’s a great story for us whenever an entrepreneur makes a crazy amount of money and we get to tell the world about it. For the entrepreneur? Not so much. Hitherto unknown relatives, entrepreneurs seeking angel investments, money managers and supposed baby-mamas all come out of the woodwork with dollar signs in their eyes.’ – Sarah Lacy
‘I mark the reading of ‘Look Homeward, Angel’ as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.’ – Pat Conroy
‘I’m friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the setup. I don’t want to see it. I just want to go, ‘God, how did you do that?” – Triple H
‘I’ve played an angel on ‘Touched by an Angel,’ bringing the message of God’s love. It was such a privilege for me as a person of faith to deliver the message.’ – Roma Downey
‘I had the privilege of playing an angel on ‘Touched by an Angel’ for many years – almost two decades, and we would deliver a message on the show. The message was that God loves them, and before filming every scene, we would come together and pray.’ – Roma Downey
”Touched by an Angel’ started my calling to be the messenger, and on a weekly basis, I was able to deliver the message of God’s love to the world.’ – Roma Downey
‘I live a life of gratitude for the abundance of love that I have and that ‘Touched by An Angel’ still has an impact that fans are still accessing.’ – Roma Downey
‘For many years, when I was starring on ‘Touched by an Angel,’ I produced on a number of television movies for CBS. I have always enjoyed the aspect of bringing something together and multitasking in that way.’ – Roma Downey
‘Over the years, I’ve found myself wishing sometimes my angel would show up. I could use a little uplift, a little reminder.’ – Roma Downey
‘What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human – the human who never looks more truthful or pitiful or benign; the curled-up, childlike dreaming soul who has for a few hours become an angel adrift.’ – Michael Leunig
‘I’ve had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I’ve been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.’ – P. L. Travers
‘I keep waiting for someone to cast me as the angel or the witch or the immortal of some kind because so much of the reading I do for my own pleasure is fantasy, horror, or sci-fi.’ – Lorraine Toussaint
‘I want to go base-jumping off Angel Falls and then canoeing down that river that goes east. That’s what I really wanna do.’ – Billy Magnussen
‘I’d been a great angel investor, but professional venture capital was clearly not the right thing for me.’ – Mitch Kapor
‘Beware angel investors: they can be disruptive.’ – Mitch Kapor
‘I once had a story editor ask me not to use the word ‘placenta.’ I wanted to say: ‘Now tell me again how you got here?’ Oh, right, an angel of God placed you into the bill of the stork.’ – Jill McCorkle
‘When we wrapped ‘Angel,’ I definitely had a moment where I thought, ‘Wow, that was the best job I’m ever gonna have.” – J. August Richards
‘In the ‘Angel’ days, all there was was a community that was like a chat room. If you were looking for feedback, you had to look for it.’ – J. August Richards
‘My mother never met a gadget she didn’t like. There were tube pans for baking the angel food cakes my father could have after his first heart attack, and Bundt pans and loaf pans and baking pans and grilling pans.’ – Janet Fitch
‘The idea is that angel investors are supposed to be wealthy people supporting people who need funds, typically who are not wealthy, and don’t have the ability to do it themselves.’ – Jason Calacanis
‘I think you need to have a very strong angel community that is committed to mentoring up-and-coming entrepreneurs.’ – Jason Calacanis
‘I’m a huge fan of ‘Buffy,’ ‘Angel’ and ‘Doctor Who.’ People like Joss Whedon, Russell T. Davies, and Steven Moffat are really amazing about making you feel like you had a complete meal and yet leaving you hungry for more.’ – Andrew Kreisberg
‘My most vivid memory – it’s actually one of my first memories – I was three, and I was the youngest angel in the show production. And I remember being absolutely desperate for the toilet. I needed to wee really badly. So I was crossing my legs when I was walking down.’ – Rose McIver
‘I work from opposites to opposites, in a way. It’s finding one thing and then doing the other from film to film. So maybe after ‘I Saw the Devil,’ I might do something like ‘I Saw the Angel’ or perhaps something warm and happy.’ – Kim Jee-woon
‘I didn’t believe in a guardian angel when I was young. I was brought up in the Protestant faith, and the one thing you had over your Catholic friends was that you didn’t have those awful saints chivvying you around.’ – Jennifer Johnston
‘I’ve always been an angel. Sometimes I transform into a witch only because the filmmaking demands it.’ – Lina Wertmuller
”Empire of Self’ is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted novelist, poet and biographer, has gone very deep into the ‘black energy’ of Gore Vidal’s relentless narcissism and megalomania. Parini envisions an epic battle between Vidal’s angelic and demonic sides, yet there’s very little of the angel in Vidal.’ – Jerome Charyn
‘We have a mentoring and angel investing programme. We are also talking to the government to help create a VC industry.’ – Romesh Wadhwani
‘I’ve had something sort of like angel cards where you pull out an angel card that turns out, like, grandmother was watching over me. And I believe, in some way, I haven’t been brave enough to engage with tarot cards mostly because they always end on a bad note. I’m sure if I understood tarot cards more I wouldn’t be as fearful.’ – Sarah Snook
‘What is ‘cool,’ anyway? Maybe it’s Warne Marsh, almost totally obscure and penniless, coming in late to a fourth-rate Hollywood nightclub, playing like an angel with a couple of sidemen, but never speaking to or even acknowledging another human being.’ – Carolyn See
‘I first met Michael Angel when he came to my office with a box of prints and asked me whether I thought he should make dresses from the prints.’ – Aslaug Magnusdottir
‘Most startup entrepreneurs unnecessarily spend half their time and give up half their equity in search of funding from angel investors and venture capitalists. Tens of millions of dollars are available to them for free from partners who not only don’t want their equity, they don’t even want to be paid back.’ – Jay Samit
‘As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.’ – Jay Samit
‘State funds, private equity, venture capital, and institutional lending all have their role in the lifecycle of a high tech startup, but angel capital is crucial for first-time entrepreneurs. Angel investors provide more than just cash; they bring years of expertise as both founders of businesses and as seasoned investors.’ – Jay Samit
‘I don’t have any angel blood, as far as I know.’ – Dominic Sherwood
‘My name, Solange, means ‘Angel of the sun,’ and I’m completely enamored of my African history. The culture is so expressive.’ – Solange Knowles
‘I never heard anything so brilliant in my life as I did that first time I heard Ornette. He played like some revolutionary angel. Soon, we were rehearsing in his place, music scattered everywhere, and he was telling me to play outside the chord changes, which was exactly what I had been wanting to do. Now I had permission.’ – Charlie Haden
‘If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, ‘Look, I’m willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day’ – I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.’ – Yitzhak Navon
‘No creature, not even the most exalted angel, can understand God or have perfect knowledge of Him.’ – Mother Angelica
‘Each angel that God created was in himself a masterpiece. Each one possessed his own degree of intelligence and his own beauty.’ – Mother Angelica
‘Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.’ – Victoria Pendleton
‘If I do something, I want to be the best. And one of the best things you can be is a Victoria’s Secret Angel; for me, that’s always been a goal.’ – Sara Sampaio
‘I accept the fact that angels are great heavenly beings, and I think some people give me the feeling that I’m with an angel.’ – Benjamin Clementine
‘Perhaps the original layaway angel knew from experience, or simply deduced, that people resorting to the old-fashioned installment method of layaway may be struggling financially.’ – Elaine Chao
‘When you watch television shows, as good as they are, like ‘Joan of Arcadia’ and ‘Touched by an Angel,’ everything is this kind of mishmash of faith but not any specific religion.’ – David Seltzer
‘Of course, we all need angels. I had to have one over my head throughout my life, even right now. The odds of my making it were slim to none. So you have to have an angel. You have to believe.’ – Michael Oher
‘My little girl’s in Heaven. She’s my angel, and I can draw from that.’ – Daniel Cormier
‘I’m no angel. You can see that. But every time I play, I will play the same way because that’s the way I am.’ – Diego Costa
‘Don’t put wings on me; I am no angel.’ – Diego Costa
‘I have a thing about angels. I believe in them. I feel like I have a guardian angel. I think everybody has one.’ – Sheryl Lee
‘I feel the same magic about ‘Angel Falls’ that I did with ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Mod Squad.” – Peggy Lipton
‘It is very hip to be an angel investor now. There used to be a dozen, two dozen guys at these demo days writing checks. Now there are hundreds.’ – Chris Sacca
‘For the devices we use… the funding models are completely screwed up. Angel funding isn’t sufficient for hardware.’ – Mary Lou Jepsen
‘I don’t see the arts as competitive at all. It was a better angel of my nature. Sports is zero-sum: winner, loser, demonstrable.’ – Richard Linklater
‘When I first started as an angel investor, I was excited to start investing in startups – but I didn’t know much. I couldn’t tell the good ones from the bad; I didn’t understand all these venture capital terms, so I would invest somewhat blindly.’ – Gil Penchina
‘I started angel investing because I like hanging out with entrepreneurs.’ – Gil Penchina
‘I’m no angel.’ – Jake LaMotta
‘Luckily, one of the perks of being an Angel is that I don’t have to go to casting. It’s so nerve-wracking – even the girls who have been in the show year after year still get nervous. The show is seen around the world, so it’s a huge honor to be selected.’ – Lily Aldridge
‘I had done six or eight traditional angel investments and basically just thought it sucked.’ – David Cohen
‘My voice is not angel voice.’ – Kristine Opolais
‘I’ve had an experience that… I don’t know the right label to put to it, if it was an angel or Jesus or what. Nobody knows anything for sure about that, but I know that I had an encounter, and I know that things exist beyond this realm, most definitely. I’m grounded in that.’ – Phyllis Smith
‘I always acted in high school. Actually, I started in preschool. I was in a play about Jesus. I went to a Catholic school and played an angel and recited some poem about Jesus. It felt so long to me at the time.’ – Maura Tierney
‘We’ve talked with over a dozen VCs and angel investors over the years. But we’ve never clicked with any of them until Andreessen. During our initial meeting, we were bouncing ideas around about where Imgur could go.’ – Alan Schaaf
‘We’ve known Cyndi Lauper since she was in ‘Blue Angel’; we did a TV show with her back in ’79 or ’80. We don’t have any competition; we’re complementary.’ – Kate Pierson
‘When people voted for Donald Trump, they knew he wasn’t an angel.’ – Corey Stewart
‘My husband has been an absolute angel for me. Always there when I need him as best he can.’ – Ayesha Curry
‘What would happen if an angel appeared before the American president and told him there was no more need for war? Everything would collapse.’ – Emir Kusturica
‘I remember, as a kid, my first breakup at 14 years old, I was jamming to Toni Braxton trying to heal out here. Why did an angel break my heart? Hell, I don’t know.’ – LeToya Luckett
‘Though written in the 1970s, ‘Falling Angel’ is firmly set in 1959.’ – Sarah Weinman
‘When I first heard Madrid were interested, nothing else mattered. I just wanted to come here. This is the best club in the world, with the best coach and great players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Xabi Alonso, Gonzalo Higuain, Angel Di Maria… so many great players.’ – Luka Modric
‘I’ll go to the movies and hear ‘Angel From Montgomery’ in some film, and nobody ever even told me about it. They don’t tell you your stuff is going to be in a movie. They don’t have to, so they don’t tell you. You get paid eventually.’ – John Prine
‘To see Sridevi making tea in Boney Kapoor’s kitchen was a huge letdown. I won’t forgive him because he brought the angel down from heaven to the kitchen of his apartment.’ – Ram Gopal Varma
‘People across the country think I’m jealous of my dear, beloved, sweet, angel sister. But there is no-o-o-o jea-ea-ea- lou-ou-ou-ou-sy-y-y-y. I love her too much.’ – Reggie Miller
‘A lot of people do records, and they get hit records, but we were blessed with a lot of monsters. ‘Oh Carolina’ was a very monstrous record in 1993; so was ‘Boombastic,’ ‘Angel’ and ‘It Wasn’t Me.” – Shaggy
‘I’ve never been one that really won with major-name collaborators. You take, for instance, ‘Angel’ with Rayvon. ‘It Wasn’t Me’ was with Rikrok. Nobody knew who those guys were.’ – Shaggy
‘My signature dish – something I’ve been making since I was 10 – is angel hair pasta with shrimp and feta in a white-wine basil sauce with tomatoes, because it’s absolutely amazing.’ – Devon Windsor
‘For me, it’s about eating a bunch of fruit and exercising, which opens up the creativity, makes it easier to give ideas a chance and bubble to the surface. I’m no angel, but it helps me, as does hiking, heading to the ocean to catch some waves – for me, sweating it out is definitely good for the creative process.’ – Matt Skiba
‘When I started ‘Rent,’ I already had an idea of how I was going to portray Angel, simply because of who I was at that moment. Everyone always perceived her as a drag queen, but the reality of the matter is that I truly believe she was a trans woman.’ – Mj Rodriguez
‘Yes, sometimes I have done some wrong things and I’m not an angel.’ – Marko Arnautovic
‘My mom – For me, she has the spirit of an angel. She’s a healer without even knowing it… She’s beautiful inside and out. She doesn’t know she’s that.’ – Sophie Gregoire Trudeau
‘I really like Angel Love.’ – Shaunie O’Neal
‘Grandma Holly told me at three years old that I had a voice of an angel, and I just never stopped singing.’ – Ari Lennox
‘I just was always singing. I didn’t know if it was good or not, but my grandma, she told me that I sounded like an angel.’ – Ari Lennox
‘Angel of Death’ is like a history lesson, but as soon as we released it everybody was calling us Nazis. Our singer’s a dark-skinned Chilean, there’s no way we’re fascists.’ – Jeff Hanneman
‘Since we did ‘Angel of Death,’ I’ve had three occasions where someone will go ‘Psst, hey. I’m part of this Aryan World Nation group and we’re thinking of having you speak.’ I’m like, ‘Why?’ And they’ll go, ‘You know.’ I’ll be like, ‘No, why?’ And they’ll go, ‘Aren’t you… ?’ I’m like, ‘What? No. Go away. You don’t get me at all.” – Jeff Hanneman
‘I read a bunch of books about Mengele because he was pretty sick. That was how ‘Angel Of Death’ came about. I know why people misinterpret it, just because we don’t say Nazism is very bad. They get this knee-jerk reaction to it.’ – Jeff Hanneman
”Angel Of Death’ was a big problem. I remember getting a phone call after the album was done: Sony wasn’t going to release it.’ – Jeff Hanneman
‘I would say my favorite tattoo is my first tattoo of my father, you know, just the remembrance of him, his legacy and impact that he’s had on my life. He passed away when I was a kid, you know, I got the halo with the angel wings on my back.’ – DeAndre Hopkins
‘Me and my friends made a group called 1400 and the number always stuck with me. I always see it everywhere I go. There’s an angel behind the number, it’s an angelic number.’ – Trippie Redd
‘The guitar player that I’m doing my solo tour with, Angel Vivaldi, he’s been releasing incredible guitar albums and people just don’t really know about them because instrumental guitar isn’t really at the forefront of music these days.’ – Nita Strauss
‘Celine Dion, she’s magnificent. She has the voice of an angel.’ – RJ Barrett
‘Dallas McCarver is my angel. Not a day goes by where I don’t think of him.’ – Dana Brooke
‘We don’t work for the government. We don’t carry guns. We don’t chase aliens. We are a man and a woman. The similarities end there… If ‘X-Files’ and ‘Touched by an Angel’ crashed on ‘Highway to Heaven,’ you’d have ‘Mysterious Ways.” – Adrian Pasdar
‘I’ve always felt like I had a guardian angel.’ – Adrian Pasdar
‘I came into the game showing you that I’m no angel. I’m not perfect and this is why I tell people off the top.’ – August Alsina
‘Of course, becoming champions is something we all want, but I think that the best ‘championship’ for a manager is to see players like Koke, Lucas Hernandez, Angel Correa – lads who have come up from all the way down in the lower divisions – become professionals of a high standard.’ – Diego Simeone
‘I talk to God and ask Him to help me. I tell Him that everything I say and do in the game is for His glory and I ask Him to put me an angel on each side, in each post, and behind me so that everything can turn out fine.’ – Keylor Navas
‘Bill Bakula was my angel. In one moment in my life, he was sent by God to make me and my message of love be known. He was very smart. He was the master.’ – Walter Mercado
‘I have two great examples of a father. My dad is honestly my hero and sets the bar high for how a man should treat a woman. My stepmother is a caring, genuine and supportive woman. My mom is a spunky strong woman with a huge heart. And my sister is just a pure angel. There is a lot of love in my family.’ – Kaitlyn Bristowe
‘One thing that I’ve learned about myself is I have to trust what I see. And that maybe sounds silly, but there’s things that I feel or see during a game that, you know, I used to explain it as I have an angel on one shoulder that’s telling me to run the play and the devil on the other shoulder that’s telling me really what I should do.’ – Ryan Fitzpatrick
‘People really seemed to think of me as a guardian angel. People would bring their children before me for a blessing or something.’ – Bruno Ganz
‘In some way I became an angel, and who except me has experienced that in his lifetime?’ – Bruno Ganz
‘Director Alphonse Putharen came to my life as an angel and transformed my families’ lives. That’s why we named our home ‘Premam.” – Anupama Parameswaran
‘Since coming out of jail, I still made mistakes daily. Don’t me wrong, I’m not an angel by any stretch of the imagination, but my mistakes are just normal ones now like forgetting to go to the shop when the missus asks or not putting the bins out, stuff like that.’ – Troy Deeney
‘I was lucky enough to be a part of the first Angels team to win a World Series title and I look forward to the opportunity to bring Angel fans their second championship.’ – Joe Maddon
‘I just like feeling good; I love the gym, I love running, I’ve taken riding lessons – I’ve got three kids, so I have a good reason to keep fit and stay healthy. Although I’m not an angel and I do love eating well!’ – Sara Cox
‘My mom is the best because she’s an angel on earth.’ – Divya Khosla Kumar
‘I want to play a wife who cheats on her husband, or just a normal person who isn’t an angel, because I am far from an angel.’ – Rosie Jones
‘I am by no means an angel, and I have made many mistakes, but a woman can only turn her cheek so many times.’ – Shanna Moakler
‘I think if they did go ahead and include a plus-sized angel, I think it would be such a huge statement from Victoria’s Secret especially cause for so long, as a curvy woman, I haven’t been able to shop there, able to fit in a lot of their stuff.’ – Denise Bidot
‘I don’t have the looks of angel, I don’t have the body of a goddess, I’m kind of invisible.’ – Lesley Sharp
‘I have watched ‘La La Land’… it’s a beautiful, magical film and I think Ryan Gosling sang like an angel and Emma Stone sounded like a goddess.’ – Neha Bhasin
‘On ‘Masterchef’ I’m always a big fan of the puddings. But I have to confess, as a child I absolutely loved butterscotch angel delight. My mum used to make it in huge bowls. She’s one of the worst cooks ever, bless her. The best thing she did was a chilli con carne, and that was still terrible.’ – Gregg Wallace
‘I wanted to be white and blonde so I could be an angel in the school Nativity play. Because only the blonde girls were allowed to be the angels and angels are lovely and I just wanted to be lovely too.’ – Vick Hope
‘I heard ‘Angel’ because my children are huge Sarah McLachlan fans. When I heard it for the first time I just cried my eyes out.’ – Lorrie Morgan
‘My mom is a baby angel of this earth.’ – Alana Haim
‘I’m not going to paint myself as an angel, but I feel my colour works against me when I’m up in court. But I’m not going to paint myself as a martyr.’ – Mark Morrison
‘I love Heidi because she’s the most special angel I have ever come across.’ – Spencer Pratt
‘It was pretty fun to watch Jose Reyes, and Angel Pagan, too.’ – Fernando Tatis Jr.
‘No one’s an angel; I’ve never met one.’ – Richard Carpenter
‘I’m not an angel, though I try to go every so often to church to put right my sins.’ – Miguel Almiron
‘About two months after I’d finished filming ‘The Beach’ in Thailand, I found myself on a roof in Croydon at 2:00 A.M. in the rain with one spotlight on me, a student director and her technician trying to film me as an angel who’d fallen from the sky. Then the lights went out. And I thought, ‘Yeah, you’re back.” – Paterson Joseph