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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
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
We live in a world where people can ridicule you at the push of the button. They can question you at the push of a button.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Button Live People Push Question World
People don’t want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it’s different.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Change Different Experience Human Nature People Wake Up
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
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
We came. We saw. We conquered.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

One Liner Team Work Togetherness
Nobody has to give me permission to write.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

One Liner Permission Writing
Today, we don’t fight for just one life, we fight for all of them.
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Fight Justice Life
I don’t have a smart house. My house is very dumb.
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Dumb House Smart
I’m not so keen on letting my car drive itself.
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Car Drive
Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Cousin One Liner Slave
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
As a director, it is important to understand the actor’s process.
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Actor Director Movie Process
I can’t even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Fun Imagination Movie Play
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

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