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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.

Chadwick Boseman

When you’re doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Character Landscape Mental Movie Physical Spiritual
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.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Acting Artist Believe Fact Permission Regard Surface Work Writing
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.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Aspect Bad Character Freedom Goodness Important
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.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Love Need People Realize
In dark hours, true leaders rise.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Darkness Inspirational Leadership One Liner Rise
Girls like dudes that are overweight.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Dude Girl Weight
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.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Movie Painting Person Show
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.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Actor Actress Black Lives Matter Industry Work
I am not a huge fan of surprises.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Fan Surprise
The struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Inspirational Purpose Shape Struggle
Let the ways of love be the ways of man.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Love Man One Liner
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.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Black Lives Matter Impact Involvement People Project
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.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Claim Racism Reality Society Tragedy
You think you can’t change the world? You can.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Believe Change Inspirational World
There’s nothing more painful than your abdomen growling.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Growth Pain
You have to appreciate things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under tension
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Appreciation Clock Different Tension

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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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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