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When you play characters, you shouldn’t just be putting on their characteristics – you should be finding it inside yourself.

Chadwick Boseman

I can’t even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Fun Imagination Movie Play
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
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.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Ability Baseball Bone Explosive Movement Muscle Player Strength Stress Training
When you play characters, you shouldn’t just be putting on their characteristics – you should be finding it inside yourself.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Character Characteristics Finding Movie Play Yourself
We let the fear of discovery stop us from doing what is right.
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Discover Fear Right Stop
There’s nothing more painful than your abdomen growling.
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Growth Pain
I don’t have a smart house. My house is very dumb.
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Dumb House Smart
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
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
As a director, it is important to understand the actor’s process.
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Actor Director Movie Process
I’m not so keen on letting my car drive itself.
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Car Drive
The struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.
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Inspirational Purpose Shape Struggle
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
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
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
Gender Equality. Start from the top. Dare to put a woman in power.
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Dare Equality Gender Women Empowerment Women Power

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