I never dealt with fame. It was never a goal of mine to become famous.
BORIS KODJOEI never dealt with fame. It was never a goal of mine to become famous.
BORIS KODJOEI 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.
BORIS KODJOEWe have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don’t deal with ourselves and don’t deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy.
BORIS KODJOEI know I can act and it doesn’t matter where you come from.
BORIS KODJOEWhen I set goals, they’re more tangible than becoming famous. You don’t build a company or a foundation for fame.
BORIS KODJOELet’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 KODJOEI 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 KODJOEI’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.
BORIS KODJOEI 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 KODJOEEverybody 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 KODJOEWhen 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 KODJOESometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn’t need a man. I think that’s wrong. I think we all need someone.
BORIS KODJOEI had to study acting to basically educate myself.
BORIS KODJOEI’m in the booth and first of all, I’m from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.
BORIS KODJOESecular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.
BORIS KODJOEI’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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