Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.
BORIS KODJOESecular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.
More Boris Kodjoe Quotes
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I don’t need a gym. You can do a lot without the gym, so that’s what I’ve chosen to do.
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When you work as actors in this business, you spend a lot of time apart. That’s why a lot of marriages fail. It’s not because of Hollywood, it’s because you don’t spend time together.
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I’m in the booth and first of all, I’m from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.
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Let’s say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
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I’m always an entrepreneur, but I’d probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that’s tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.
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Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do, as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don’t make any sense.
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I’m the same person. I don’t put on a face. I’m the same guy every time you see me.
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I came to America because of a tennis scholarship. I really wanted to get away because I was really frustrated about my injury so my mother said, “Go to America for four months and just open your eyes and see that there’s more things than tennis.” That’s what happened.
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I never dealt with fame. It was never a goal of mine to become famous.
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I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.
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Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.
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I don’t care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.
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It’s a tremendous honor to be asked to carry a show.
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I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.
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When I set goals, they’re more tangible than becoming famous. You don’t build a company or a foundation for fame.
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