Nelsan Ellis Quotes
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Everybody kept saying, 'I just don't know how to sell you.' I'm odd. I don't think you can put a finger on me.
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My idea of horses is from when I grew up on a farm. They were big, and they were dumb.
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When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.
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With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get.
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The sci-fi fans in America... they are die-hard. They will follow you to the ends of the Earth. Once they attach themselves to a show and believe in the show and love the characters, they're there forever, and they're unshakeable.
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I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.
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You go back to my town, it's like going back to the 1960s... just not a great place to grow up.
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I think, in this country, anybody can do whatever they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else or violating the laws of society.
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When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.
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It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
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I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.
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I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and writing.
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You have to learn to not hate who you have to live with.
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Being different makes you beautiful.
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When you're in a position that you can comfortably give, you need to pay it forward.
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My mom's side, they're southern Baptist Christian.
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When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'
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Alan Ball, he's good at challenging his actors, I'll say that.
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I don't look anything like my mother, except when I'm Lafayette. I look like my father.
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Anna Paquin is marvelous, and she brings so much experience to the table.
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There were not many black students at Juilliard, unfortunately. So when you get there, you become very good friends, in particular, with the other black students.
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I can't approach a character with judgment.
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Being different gives the world color.
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Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.