If we don’t learn from the mistakes of the past, we are doomed to repeat them in the future.
CHADWICK BOSEMANYou’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 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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Rise up. Register. Let your voice be heard.
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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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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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I might have had too many friends in my twenties.
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I can’t even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.
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I got scars from every film I’ve done, every TV show.
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They should probably have a James Brown aerobic tape. You would lose a lot of weight.
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Today, we don’t fight for just one life, we fight for all of them.
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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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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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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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I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.
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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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You have to appreciate things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under tension
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I’m not afraid to work.
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I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It’s not as much about them loving you – it’s about you needing to love 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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The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you’re not dead!
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When it comes down to it, I’d rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.
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I’d taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn’t a musical theater person at all.
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In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish barriers.
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Been blessed to work with many strong, beautiful women.
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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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Some states spend more $$ on prisons than on colleges. We have to make a change.
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When you are deciding on next steps, next jobs, next careers, further education, you should rather find purpose than a job or a career,” he said at the time. “Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history.
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