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A superhero movie is only as great as its villains.

Chadwick Boseman

Blessed to meet so many great people everywhere I go. Can’t thank you all enough for the support.
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Actor Meet People Support Thankful
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
In my culture, death is not the end, it’s more of a stepping off point.
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Culture Death Point Step
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
A superhero movie is only as great as its villains.
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Hero Movie Villain
When you play characters, you shouldn’t just be putting on their characteristics – you should be finding it inside yourself.
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Character Characteristics Finding Movie Play Yourself
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’m not so keen on letting my car drive itself.
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Car Drive
Nobody has to give me permission to write.
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One Liner Permission Writing
We let the fear of discovery stop us from doing what is right.
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Discover Fear Right Stop
Some states spend more $$ on prisons than on colleges. We have to make a change.
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Change College Country Prison State Vote
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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Aspect Bad Character Freedom Goodness Important
I wasn’t a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, ‘Oh, I have this comic book here.’ It wasn’t like I was collecting them.
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Book Comic Kids
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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Ability Baseball Bone Explosive Movement Muscle Player Strength Stress Training
I am not a huge fan of surprises.
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Fan Surprise
Girls like dudes that are overweight.
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Dude Girl Weight
In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish barriers.
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Barrier Bridge Crises Foolish Time Wise
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
FBF to one of the most beautiful locations I’ve ever shot at.
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Beautiful Location Shot
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
Understanding our history is one of many ways to break the cycle of racial injustice in this country. ⁣
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Break Country Cycle History Injustice Rasicm
I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write.
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Artist Instrument Music Script Writing
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
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
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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Claim Racism Reality Society Tragedy
In television you don’t have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it’s even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.
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Dreansm Shoot Movie Role Script Television Time

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