Morris Chestnut Quotes
I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.
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The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.
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Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Female characters in literature are full. They're messy: they've got runny noses and burp and belch. Unfortunately, in film, female characters don't often have that kind of richness.
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Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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I make sure that whatever film I do, I enjoy my role.
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Every friendship is different because everyone's personality is different.
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It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
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They call David O. Russell the actor whisperer because he can get stuff out of actors that maybe some other directors can't.
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As an actor, I don't want to do something which I have already done before.
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All rappers exaggerate.
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There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.
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The community that stands behind a culture as a comprehensively productive personality must be so extensive that in it, to a certain degree, all partialities balance out and work together.
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Clinton's a schmuck.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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It's an unfortunate reality of being a male dancer that it's not really looked upon... it's not appreciated.
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I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.
