Top 37 Chadwick Boseman Quotes
#2. I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.
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#3. You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily. When you're young, you don't want to hear that. You think you can do everything, be all things.
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#5. When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe,
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#6. I'm the kind of guy who comes home and checks scores for everything. I'm a sports fan in general, so I pretty much keep up with who's ahead in a division and everything that's going on.
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#7. I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.
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#8. What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them.
Ben Okri
#9. I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.
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#10. When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that first meeting.
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#11. Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.
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#12. Those who will not dance will have to be shot
Sun Ra
#13. So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire ... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.
Michelangelo
#14. Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.
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#15. In TV, you're basically shooting an episode in 10 to 14 days; 14 days is a luxury situation. And in film, you have anywhere from a month to three months, or it can be even longer than that, depending on what the production is.
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#16. As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.
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#17. I think these shows with the young kids doing these jumps, doing these fantastic back flips, I think they're absolutely great. They did what I never did.
Evel Knievel
#18. I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.
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#19. I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.
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#20. Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.
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#21. The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!
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#22. I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When you play basketball seriously, a lot of times, through the summer season, you continue playing. So that replaced me playing baseball.
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#24. Girls like dudes that are overweight. I know too many women who say, "I like you now that you've got a little thicker," and I don't really know any woman that says, "I like you now that you've got bald."
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#25. Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.
Christian Slater
#26. 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.
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#27. 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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#28. I just think people have been very gracious and welcoming me on set, and even off set.
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#29. As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.
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#30. I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.
Kim Alexis
#31. When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.
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#32. I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.
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#33. 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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#35. Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
Jack Kemp
#36. You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.
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#37. 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.
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