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I know I can act and it doesn’t matter where you come from.

Boris Kodjoe

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.
BORIS KODJOE

Artist Secular Self
I’m the same person. I don’t put on a face. I’m the same guy every time you see me.
BORIS KODJOE

Faces Guy Persons
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.
BORIS KODJOE

People Pride Religious
I was a professional tennis player in my teens. I played mostly in Europe. I was top 10 in the world in juniors, and then I messed up my back. I had three herniated discs and that put a stop to it.
BORIS KODJOE

Country People Player Tennis
My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.
BORIS KODJOE

Cute Life Love
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.
BORIS KODJOE

Actors Certain Guy
I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.
BORIS KODJOE

People Play Sunset
I know I can act and it doesn’t matter where you come from.
BORIS KODJOE

Come Knows Matter
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.
BORIS KODJOE

Actors Hollywood Together
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.
BORIS KODJOE

Emotional Religious Thinking
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.
BORIS KODJOE

Black First Impression People
It’s a tremendous honor to be asked to carry a show.
BORIS KODJOE

Honor Shows Tremendous
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.
BORIS KODJOE

Artist Knowing Views
You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that’s what me and my wife have. We don’t need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it’s important to educate the kids with that.
BORIS KODJOE

Independent Kids Thinking
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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Country Firsts Heard Life
I don’t need a gym. You can do a lot without the gym, so that’s what I’ve chosen to do.
BORIS KODJOE

Chosen Gym Needs

I know I can act and it doesn’t matter where you come from.

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