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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.

Chadwick Boseman

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
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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Actor Character Fantasy Myself Regard Role Yourself
I can definitely dance, but pedestrian dancing.
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Dance Definitely
People don’t want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it’s different.
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Change Different Experience Human Nature People Wake Up
I think there’s a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They’re all three different things.
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Actor Celebrity Difference Movi
They should probably have a James Brown aerobic tape. You would lose a lot of weight.
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Probable Weigh Loss
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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Actor Actress Black Lives Matter Industry Work
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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Black Lives Matter Impact Involvement People Project
Blessed to meet so many great people everywhere I go. Can’t thank you all enough for the support.
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Actor Meet People Support Thankful
In dark hours, true leaders rise.
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Darkness Inspirational Leadership One Liner Rise
As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven’t been told.
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Actor Country Movie Story
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
I got scars from every film I’ve done, every TV show.
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Film Scars Television
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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Acting Artist Believe Fact Permission Regard Surface Work Writing
Sometimes when you’re acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.
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Acting Channel Place Tranportat
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

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