Michael B. Jordan Quotes
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I'm a professional at what I do. As a police officer you're a professional at what you're supposed to do. You should know your equipment well. You should know the difference between a taser and a handgun.
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I definitely want to direct. This is just another learning experience for me, to get a chance to hear the questions and concerns the directors have, some of their fears. It's a team sport. You have to give everybody what they need so they are able to perform at their best.
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[Chris Evans] is doing an amazing job with "Captain America." I really enjoy those films as well so that's kind of pretty much where that was.
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You see somebody like me, as young as I was at the time, driving around the inner city of Newark, and to them [police] it doesn't make sense. I've been illegally searched [and had] my car illegally searched. [I've] been handcuffed for no reason. You get in enough of those situations.
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In terms of experience with the police, everybody got those. It's such a reality.
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I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't really value each other's lives .
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I think Chris Evans has got Captain America locked up. The role is in good hands.
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You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don't, and it's a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.
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In many ways for black actors there's been two leading guys: It's Will Smith vs. Denzel [Washington].
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My forever mission is to take the best elements of both commercial and independent films and bring them together. I learned so much about the art of independent films and I have so much fun in commercial ones. I think that a mix of both is good.
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To the trolls on the internet, I want to say: Get your head out of the computer. Go outside and walk around. Look at the people walking next to you. Look at your friends' friends and who they're interacting with. And just understand this is the world we live in. It's okay to like it.
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Phone calls are much more personal than texting and then when you get a girl on the phone, it's like you ask a question and you get a response back. For a text message, they can read it and get back to it whenever they want to. So that makes a difference, almost like a power play in a way.
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I think everybody wants to be their own person and be an individual.
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That's probably why my face was looking so crazy when I was crying [in "Hardball"] because it was some real.
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I'm a comic book fan.
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As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want to direct.
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I want to do more films.
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Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.
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Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.
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We were shooting this movie called "Hardball," with Keanu Reeves. We shot in the city, and I just remember I couldn't really do too much. At 13 or 14, you couldn't go out to any nightlife.
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I can't sing worth a lick, so I don't know if I would be allowed in the ["The Mickey Mouse Club"].
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Sometimes when you grieve, you grieve at a time where you don't really expect it. You might hear a song or you might smell something or see something that might trigger something, and all of a sudden you get hit with this rush of emotion.
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Honestly, I'm a firm believer in the next generation of filmmakers. It's very important to keep things fresh, new, current. They have a pulse on what's important today.
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I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.