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Understanding our history is one of many ways to break the cycle of racial injustice in this country. ⁣

Chadwick Boseman

I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It helped me to deal with some of the complications of living in the South because I always felt like I belonged, no matter what.
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Complication Family Life Strength Village
I try to look at every role the same way, regardless of whether the character is real or the character is a fantasy. I always start from myself, because you have to know yourself first.
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Actor Character Fantasy Myself Regard Role Yourself
When you’re doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
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Character Landscape Mental Movie Physical Spiritual
They should probably have a James Brown aerobic tape. You would lose a lot of weight.
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Probable Weigh Loss
You have to appreciate things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under tension
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Appreciation Clock Different Tension
The rise of the women is the rise of the nation.
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Nation Rise Women Women Empowerment
Nobody has to give me permission to write.
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One Liner Permission Writing
I’m not really interested in being a superhero. That’s not a box I’ve been trying to check off.
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Box Check Hero Interest Try
In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish barriers.
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Barrier Bridge Crises Foolish Time Wise
We came. We saw. We conquered.
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One Liner Team Work Togetherness
I have skills like a panther, and I am going to change my destiny with it.
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Change Destiny Panther Positive Skill
I’m an artist. Artists don’t need permission to work. Regardless of whether I’m acting or not, I write. I write when I’m tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.
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Acting Artist Believe Fact Permission Regard Surface Work Writing
Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.
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Movie Painting Person Show
People don’t want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it’s different.
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The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it’s not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.
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Actor Actress Black Lives Matter Industry Work
The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
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Choose Difference Hero Hurt Movie People Power Selfish Villain
The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you’re not dead!
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Advice Birthday Dead Old
People have said, ‘You don’t need to do any more biopics. You don’t need to play any more real people.’ I don’t agree with that.
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Agree Biography Need People Real
Today, we don’t fight for just one life, we fight for all of them.
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Fight Justice Life
You think you can’t change the world? You can.
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Believe Change Inspirational World
Sometimes when you’re acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.
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Acting Channel Place Tranportat
I don’t have a smart house. My house is very dumb.
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Dumb House Smart
One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, ‘Don’t judge the character.’
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Actor Character Judgment
When I attain before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of ability left, and could say, ‘I used everything You gave me.
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Ability Attain God Life Satisfaction
I can’t even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.
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Fun Imagination Movie Play
If we don’t learn from the mistakes of the past, we are doomed to repeat them in the future.
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Future Inspirational Mistake Past Repeat
I don’t read reviews, but I do get feedback from my peers and people I know, like other actors and directors and producers.
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Actor Director Feedback People Producer Review

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