Billy Dee Williams Quotes
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The only thing that said 'Lando Calrissian' was ethnic was his looks.
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I don't know. You know, when I'm not acting, I'm not an actor. I'm just a person. That's how I go through life. I'd rather not - you know, like a lot of actors, you know, they spend their whole 24 hours a day being an actor.
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I loved Marlon Brando: my favorite actor.
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I want people to see my heart, what I feel - not as one of America's best black actors but as one of the best actors.
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I think a lot of black filmmakers have done very well.
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It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.
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It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.
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Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.
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If anything, I've seen myself as the full spectrum of colors, and to be faced with not being able to do something just because I'm of a particular race has been something that I've always found very difficult - even today.
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There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get into arguments with little children who would accuse me of betraying Han Solo.
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I take very good care of myself, and I've still got a lot of things I need and want to do - and I am still cute. Retiring seems like such a remote thing to me. The whole idea of it.
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I go, and I do my work, and I try to do the best I can, and I collect my money, and I go home, and then I go on to the next thing. That's my attitude.
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I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.
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The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.
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I think I'm a good father. As a parent, you have the responsibility to create a foundation for your children so that they can meet all the challenges.
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You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.
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My mother's side of the family, they're from Montserrat in the Leeward Islands.
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For myself, if I'm trying to obtain a certain longevity in my career, to establish myself as a certain kind of star, I don't want that black exploitation image.
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I'm always looking for good things to do.
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I was in the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, on a scholarship. I was - still am - an artist. They were looking for an actor for 'Take a Giant Step,' and a producer liked my look and asked if I could act. I said, 'Yep!' Then I got into acting more or less just to make money for paints and canvases.
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Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.
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Oh, I paint all the time.
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Sometimes a true original doesn't need to change a thing.
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I love the Mexican muralists - like Rivera, Orozco - and the music of Walter Benton. They gave you a sense that reality was much more than life.