African American Actor Quotes

#1. When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

Lee Grant

#2. Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.

Blair Underwood

#3. As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.

Chadwick Boseman

#4. Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well.

Roberta Williams

#5. Nothing like modern art for sterilizing the life out of things.

Aldous Huxley

#6. I only became an actor to get your attention, to challenge the archetype of an African American male; I can't be anything else in this lifetime than an African American man.

Isaiah Washington

#7. Being business minded requires you to always approach things with humility and respect.

Strive Masiyiwa

#8. Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.

Thomas Sowell

#9. A whole world exists outside of that hellhole.

Courtney Summers

#10. Alas, if worth be based on beauty,
Snow White has surpassed you, cutie.

James Finn Garner

#11. In Scotland football hooliganism has been met by banning alcohol from grounds but in England this solution has been circumnavigated

Wallace Mercer

#12. Happiness is never grand.

Huxley, Aldous

#13. These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid.
For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.

Kahlil Gibran

#14. PROSPERO THE ENCHANTER uses a pocket knife to slit his daughter's fingertips open, one by one, watching wordlessly as she cries until calm enough to heal them, drips of blood slowly creeping backward. The skin melds together, swirls of fingerprint ridges finding one another

Erin Morgenstern

#15. As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, Latinos, and I don't think that I've ever had to play some kind of ethnic stereotype or something that was typed specifically for a person of color.

Daniel Sunjata

#16. Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

Gary Hamel

#17. Life is a wheel, and it always comes back around to where it started.

Stephen King

#18. Really she was just like everyone else, she wanted to love someone. Even better if they loved you in return. She was considering getting a cat. She didn't really like cats though. That might be a bit of a problem. Quite liked dogs.

Kate Atkinson

#19. Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp.

Erik King