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I had two times in my life where I wanted to give up everything I worked for, but God gave me a job.
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There's a lot of stuff that's not good that's touted as being good.
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My company, Cinema Gypsy, produced a podcast, 'Bronzeville,' in conjunction with Larenz Tate and his brothers that we're developing into a television show. It deals with a very tight-knit African-American community in Chicago in 1947 and people who run a numbers wheel.
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I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God.
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Things have become considerably better for men of colour since I was born. But I'd say that we'll be really getting somewhere when things get better for women of colour.
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I learned tolerance at a very early age.
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The commercial I did for Kia was hilarious and unexpected, so that, I think, is also another way of signaling to the audience that there's more to me than Morpheus.
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My mother is quite a woman. She would push me, and when I got tired of her pushing, I'd say: 'Leave me alone. Don't push so much.'
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Most of us are afraid of our success, that we will actually be great.
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My production company, what we are trying to do is I'm trying to create content that speaks to me, and it's not one color. It's not one size fits all.
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Having 50 to 60 years on the planet should give you a sense of how to master the way you look and live your life.
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It's funny, a lot of people think I take myself seriously because I come off so serious sometimes. But it's not that I take myself seriously, I take what I do seriously.
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I see that I have, as part of my stock in trade, a very regal personality and carriage. I see that I have a kind of strength, a kind of command, and a kind of power that one would associated with a monarch.
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Acting is a childlike thing. To act well, you have to be childlike in order to free yourself.
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I work with my instincts. I don't have a process that I learned in an acting class whereby I break a script down or whereby I do a certain kind of research.
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All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.
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Projects don't need to be special for me to sign up, but I do need them to have something that speaks to me in some way.
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I was a child actor but not a child star.
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Some characters need to be more performance-orientated; some, you have to be still.
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I didn't have much of a childhood, but that's O.K. I have a livelihood.
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I always wanted to play a cowboy. I just didn't get to do it the way I thought I would.
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I've been around long enough now and have learned to be flexible enough to know that every movie isn't going to be 'Apocalypse Now,' and every director doesn't have to be Stanley Kubrick.
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People think my name is Morpheus. Many times, people will say to me, 'Morpheus!' and I will complete the sentence by saying, 'is not my name!'
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I've played a lot of bad guys, 'cause that was the only work I could get. People saw my face and went 'oooh'.
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