I’m not really interested in being a superhero. That’s not a box I’ve been trying to check off.
CHADWICK BOSEMANThe 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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A beautiful city with incredible people. My thoughts are with you, Berlin.
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I’m not afraid to work.
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I think there’s a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They’re all three different things.
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Guys are natural problem solvers – they like to have strategies.
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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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The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that will be impactful, for the most part, to my people – to black people.
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In my culture, death is not the end, it’s more of a stepping off point.
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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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Life is too short, there is no guarantee how much do you live, Live your Life.
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Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don’t tear the muscles from the bones.
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For all the claims that we now live in a society free of racism, the tragedies that presently overwhelm us are a stiff dose of reality.
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Nobody has to give me permission to write.
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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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I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write.
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I’m not so keen on letting my car drive itself.
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I think the most stressful time of my life was when I was in New York, and I didn’t have money to pay my rent.
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I might have had too many friends in my twenties.
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I got scars from every film I’ve done, every TV show.
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When you play characters, you shouldn’t just be putting on their characteristics – you should be finding it inside yourself.
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Some states spend more $$ on prisons than on colleges. We have to make a change.
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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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You’re not free unless you can show the good and the bad, all sides of them. So to me, when I play a character, it’s important that I can show every aspect of them.
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I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.
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Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.
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Girls like dudes that are overweight.
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If Love is too much to ask, at least Respect everyone, regardless of race, creed, sexual preference, bloodline, criminal history, power, or position.
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