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I think there’s a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They’re all three different things.

Chadwick Boseman

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.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Actor Character Fantasy Myself Regard Role Yourself
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
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 best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you’re not dead!
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Advice Birthday Dead Old
Nobody has to give me permission to write.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

One Liner Permission Writing
The rise of the women is the rise of the nation.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Nation Rise Women Women Empowerment
If Love is too much to ask, at least Respect everyone, regardless of race, creed, sexual preference, bloodline, criminal history, power, or position.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Criminal History Love Preference Race Regard Respect Sexual
I can definitely dance, but pedestrian dancing.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Dance Definitely
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
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

Dreansm Shoot Movie Role Script Television Time
In my culture, death is not the end, it’s more of a stepping off point.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Culture Death Point Step
I’m not really interested in being a superhero. That’s not a box I’ve been trying to check off.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Box Check Hero Interest Try
One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, ‘Don’t judge the character.’
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Actor Character Judgment
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
In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish barriers.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Barrier Bridge Crises Foolish Time Wise
I might have had too many friends in my twenties.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Friendship Past

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