When you play characters, you shouldn’t just be putting on their characteristics – you should be finding it inside yourself.
CHADWICK BOSEMANThere’s nothing more painful than your abdomen growling.
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Understanding our history is one of many ways to break the cycle of racial injustice in this country.
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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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I wasn’t a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, ‘Oh, I have this comic book here.’ It wasn’t like I was collecting them.
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You’re not free unless you can show the good and the bad, all sides of them. So to me, when I play a character, it’s important that I can show every aspect of them.
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I have skills like a panther, and I am going to change my destiny with it.
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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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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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If we don’t learn from the mistakes of the past, we are doomed to repeat them in the future.
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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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We live in a world where people can ridicule you at the push of the button. They can question you at the push of a button.
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Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don’t tear the muscles from the bones.
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If Love is too much to ask, at least Respect everyone, regardless of race, creed, sexual preference, bloodline, criminal history, power, or position.
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Been blessed to work with many strong, beautiful women.
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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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I am not a huge fan of surprises.
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The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you’re not dead!
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We let the fear of discovery stop us from doing what is right.
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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 can definitely dance, but pedestrian dancing.
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Today, we don’t fight for just one life, we fight for all of them.
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Gender Equality. Start from the top. Dare to put a woman in power.
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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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The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it’s not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.
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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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As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven’t been told.
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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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