I’d taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn’t a musical theater person at all.
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If we don’t learn from the mistakes of the past, we are doomed to repeat them in the future.
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I am not a huge fan of surprises.
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Life is too short, there is no guarantee how much do you live, Live your Life.
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Our lives depend on vote.
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I got scars from every film I’ve done, every TV show.
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I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, ‘Do not seek approval from the audience.’ People don’t realize that. You can’t do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.
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When you’re doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
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When you are deciding on next steps, next jobs, next careers, further education, you should rather find purpose than a job or a career,” he said at the time. “Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history.
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As a director, it is important to understand the actor’s process.
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One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, ‘Don’t judge the character.’
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I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It’s not as much about them loving you – it’s about you needing to love people.
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You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.
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In dark hours, true leaders rise.
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Today, we don’t fight for just one life, we fight for all of them.
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People have said, ‘You don’t need to do any more biopics. You don’t need to play any more real people.’ I don’t agree with that.
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I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write.
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I might have had too many friends in my twenties.
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For all the claims that we now live in a society free of racism, the tragedies that presently overwhelm us are a stiff dose of reality.
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I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It helped me to deal with some of the complications of living in the South because I always felt like I belonged, no matter what.
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Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.
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I don’t have a smart house. My house is very dumb.
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When I attain before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of ability left, and could say, ‘I used everything You gave me.
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I think the most stressful time of my life was when I was in New York, and I didn’t have money to pay my rent.
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A beautiful city with incredible people. My thoughts are with you, Berlin.
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I don’t read reviews, but I do get feedback from my peers and people I know, like other actors and directors and producers.
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In television you don’t have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it’s even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.
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