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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.

Boris Kodjoe

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 KODJOE

Hurt Issues People
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
Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.
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Artist Secular Self
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’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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Always Kids Teacher Teaching
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.
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People Pride Religious
As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.
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Daughter Mother Wife
I never dealt with fame. It was never a goal of mine to become famous.
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Fame Goal Mines
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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Emotional Religious Thinking
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.
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Half Meals Shoot Six Sugar
I had to study acting to basically educate myself.
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Acting Education Study
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.
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People Play Sunset
I know I can act and it doesn’t matter where you come from.
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Come Knows Matter
It’s a tremendous honor to be asked to carry a show.
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Honor Shows Tremendous
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.
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Independent Kids Thinking

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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