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I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

Boris Kodjoe

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
It’s a tremendous honor to be asked to carry a show.
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Honor Shows Tremendous
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
Sometimes 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.
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Independent Men Thinking
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
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
I never dealt with fame. It was never a goal of mine to become famous.
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Fame Goal Mines
My love for you is past the mind, beyond my heart, and into my soul.
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Cute Life Love
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
Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.
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Artist Secular Self
I know I can act and it doesn’t matter where you come from.
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Come Knows Matter
We 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.
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Energy Issues Outcomes
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.
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Country People Player Tennis
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.
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Black First Impression People
I had to study acting to basically educate myself.
BORIS KODJOE

Acting Education Study

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