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

Boris Kodjoe

We shoot 12 to 14 hours a day. To do all that physical stuff yourself, you have to be on a nutritional plan. I have six or seven meals a day. I eat every hour and a half, and make sure it’s all clean. I have absolutely no sugar at all.
BORIS KODJOE

Half Meals Shoot Six Sugar
Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.
BORIS KODJOE

Artist Secular Self
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 had to study acting to basically educate myself.
BORIS KODJOE

Acting Education Study
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 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’m in the booth and first of all, I’m from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.
BORIS KODJOE

Country Firsts Heard Life
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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Actors Hollywood Together
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
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
As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.
BORIS KODJOE

Daughter Mother Wife
We are willing to weather the storm of multiple failures to achieve a goal. We’re so convinced in the destination that we are able to let go of the reins and give it to God.
BORIS KODJOE

Giving Go Letting Weather
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
My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.
BORIS KODJOE

Cute Life Love
I never dealt with fame. It was never a goal of mine to become famous.
BORIS KODJOE

Fame Goal Mines
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

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

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