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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

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.
BORIS KODJOE

Acting Education Study
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
As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.
BORIS KODJOE

Daughter Mother Wife
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.
BORIS KODJOE

Always Kids Teacher Teaching
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 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 KODJOE

America Eye Mother
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.
BORIS KODJOE

Come Knows Matter
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
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
When I set goals, they’re more tangible than becoming famous. You don’t build a company or a foundation for fame.
BORIS KODJOE

Foundation Goal Tangible
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
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
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
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

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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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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