Bokeem Woodbine Quotes
You can be a dynamic actor, but could never be a star if you never spend time with the media. That's something that I neglected to do.
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People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
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'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.
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I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
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Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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I'm not partial to any system, but at the same time, I'm a Korean actor, so I expect to work mainly on Korean projects.
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Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.
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I'm not an acting monk or anything. I'm not, like, the most well-adjusted actor.
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In the broader sense at Digitas, I've been very involved in media and publishing.
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Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
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When you're an actor, you just hope you get a job to go to.
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I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.
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As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.
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The media and marketing deluge has spawned a new type of Wall Street loser: the armchair momentum player. These are novice investors who engage in short-term stock buying and selling based on media reports or an expert's enthusiasm.
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I personally was driven to be an actor for the love of telling a story. It was very closely linked to being a reader as a kid and being transported by literature and art. It had nothing – zero – to do with anything resembling fame.
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There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were brought to the forefront of the collective consciousness at that time. Granted, drug use was so pervasive that our generation did not as a group have the capacity to manifest our ideals to any great extent. But many of the people who were young in the sixties and who were most touched by that collective ethos are still touched.
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Youth is like a long weekend on Friday night. Middle age is like a long weekend on Monday afternoon.
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Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.
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I hope to create characters that people want to watch - and they either want to be or are, or it's something that they recognize.
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You can be a dynamic actor, but could never be a star if you never spend time with the media. That's something that I neglected to do.
