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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More Chadwick Boseman Quotes
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When it comes down to it, I’d rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.
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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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I can definitely dance, but pedestrian dancing.
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Nobody has to give me permission to write.
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Some states spend more $$ on prisons than on colleges. We have to make a change.
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The rise of the women is the rise of the nation.
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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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A superhero movie is only as great as its villains.
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There’s nothing more painful than your abdomen growling.
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Understanding our history is one of many ways to break the cycle of racial injustice in this country.
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I can’t even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.
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One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, ‘Don’t judge the character.’
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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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As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven’t been told.
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We came. We saw. We conquered.
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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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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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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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If we don’t learn from the mistakes of the past, we are doomed to repeat them in the future.
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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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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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In dark hours, true leaders rise.
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Life is too short, there is no guarantee how much do you live, Live your Life.
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As a director, it is important to understand the actor’s process.
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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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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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