When you play characters, you shouldn’t just be putting on their characteristics – you should be finding it inside yourself.
CHADWICK BOSEMANI 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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You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.
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Rise up. Register. Let your voice be heard.
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If we don’t learn from the mistakes of the past, we are doomed to repeat them in the future.
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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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Understanding our history is one of many ways to break the cycle of racial injustice in this country.
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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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We live in a world where people can ridicule you at the push of the button. They can question you at the push of a button.
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In dark hours, true leaders rise.
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People don’t want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it’s different.
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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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I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, ‘Do not seek approval from the audience.’ People don’t realize that. You can’t do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.
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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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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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Nobody has to give me permission to write.
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