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I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write.

Chadwick Boseman

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.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Black Lives Matter Impact Involvement People Project
I might have had too many friends in my twenties.
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Friendship Past
We came. We saw. We conquered.
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One Liner Team Work Togetherness
There’s nothing more painful than your abdomen growling.
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Growth Pain
We let the fear of discovery stop us from doing what is right.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Discover Fear Right Stop
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.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Actor Actress Black Lives Matter Industry Work
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

Class Couple Dance Music Person
When it comes down to it, I’d rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.
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Action Figure Movie
A superhero movie is only as great as its villains.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Hero Movie Villain
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.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Politics Position Right Safe Time
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
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
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
If we don’t learn from the mistakes of the past, we are doomed to repeat them in the future.
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Future Inspirational Mistake Past Repeat
I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, ‘Do not seek approval from the audience.’ People don’t realize that. You can’t do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.
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Acting Applause Approve Audience Love Number Ocean People Realize Rule Truth
Today, we don’t fight for just one life, we fight for all of them.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Fight Justice Life

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