Columbus Short Quotes

#1. I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.

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#2. As we speak, that is what we are doing. Projects that come to you are not written for you. We have to take a lesson from Will Smith, who develops projects he can shine in. We're trying to develop things from the ground up.

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#3. First of all, God inspires me, where he's brought me, it blows my mind. To know that He brought me this far, it could not have been an accident, to go forward, I'm excited to leap into the void, I'm excited about tomorrow, the unknown, excited to see what else He has for me.

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#4. I don't know if it was a defining moment. I knew it as soon as I could comprehend the possibility of having a career. I knew very young I wanted to be a movie star. As much as I grew into love of the craft. As soon as I could speak I was auditioning and going to classes every day. It was my life.

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#5. The point of acting is to hide yourself and get lost in character. To play the same character in eighteen movies would be defeating the purpose I believe so I try to keep a little bit of diversity.

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#6. I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.

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#7. I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

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#8. I try to carve my own way so the actors who come after me will say, "I want to do it like Columbus did it."

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#9. [Show] business is tough. You never know who or what's real. It's tough when you get in this business, if you have no grounded foundation other than Hollywood, because this business isn't real. We're getting paid to do what we love, but it isn't real.

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#10. Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.

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#11. With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

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#12. I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.

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#13. I just can't relax. That's my problem.

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#14. I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.

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#15. I don't want to do action that doesn't mean anything. Everything I do I want to have character development and three-dimensional characters, fallible humans, and this is definitely one of them.

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#16. I'm a silly guy, I love wit and cynicism and sarcasm.

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#17. You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.

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#18. What dancing has helped me with is blocking; it makes me comfortable with my body. You know how to hit your mark, you know how to embody a swagger. But sitting down and looking across the table at another actor and being able to go to battle on screen is nothing to do with singing or dancing.

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