70+ Chadwick Boseman Quotes

I am not a huge fan of surprises.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Fan Surprise
FBF to one of the most beautiful locations I’ve ever shot at.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Beautiful Location Shot
Rise up. Register. Let your voice be heard.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Justice Register Voice
I can definitely dance, but pedestrian dancing.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Dance Definitely
I’m not so keen on letting my car drive itself.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Car Drive
I don’t have a smart house. My house is very dumb.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Dumb House Smart
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
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
I can’t even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Fun Imagination Movie Play
I don’t read reviews, but I do get feedback from my peers and people I know, like other actors and directors and producers.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Actor Director Feedback People Producer Review
I think there’s a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They’re all three different things.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Actor Celebrity Difference Movi
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
As a director, it is important to understand the actor’s process.
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Actor Director Movie Process
I might have had too many friends in my twenties.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Friendship Past
I think the most stressful time of my life was when I was in New York, and I didn’t have money to pay my rent.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Country Hard Time Life Money Pay Rent Stress Struggle Time
I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Acting Movie Play
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.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Dreansm Shoot Movie Role Script Television Time
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 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.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Book Comic Kids
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
People have said, ‘You don’t need to do any more biopics. You don’t need to play any more real people.’ I don’t agree with that.
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Agree Biography Need People Real
I’m not really interested in being a superhero. That’s not a box I’ve been trying to check off.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Box Check Hero Interest Try
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.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Ability Baseball Bone Explosive Movement Muscle Player Strength Stress Training
I got scars from every film I’ve done, every TV show.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Film Scars Television
Guys are natural problem solvers – they like to have strategies.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Guy Natural Problem Solution Strategy
Our lives depend on vote.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN

Depend Live One Liner Vote
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

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