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Chadwick Boseman

When you’re doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
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Character Landscape Mental Movie Physical Spiritual
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
I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write.
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Artist Instrument Music Script 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.
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Movie Painting Person Show
Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.
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Cousin One Liner Slave
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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Dreansm Shoot Movie Role Script Television Time
Our lives depend on vote.
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Depend Live One Liner Vote
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
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Politics Position Right Safe Time
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
I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It helped me to deal with some of the complications of living in the South because I always felt like I belonged, no matter what.
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Complication Family Life Strength Village
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
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
Today, we don’t fight for just one life, we fight for all of them.
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Fight Justice Life
The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you’re not dead!
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Advice Birthday Dead Old
In my culture, death is not the end, it’s more of a stepping off point.
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Culture Death Point Step
You have to appreciate things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under tension
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Appreciation Clock Different Tension

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