Nobody has to give me permission to write.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN
When you’re doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
More Chadwick Boseman Quotes
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Nobody has to give me permission to write.
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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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I got scars from every film I’ve done, every TV show.
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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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Guys are natural problem solvers – they like to have strategies.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 can’t even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.
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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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I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.
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In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish barriers.
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