Corey Hawkins Quotes
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Even before I was working off-Broadway, there were lots of different TV shows that I would actually say 'no' to, and my agents would be like, 'Are you crazy?' but they stuck with me because they know the kind of things that excite me.
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On '24,' you don't have time to emote and deal with stuff, because stuff just keeps happening. Every other minute, there's something crazy that's happening that's threatening this country.
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I live in New York.
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I'm not going to lie to you: I'd prefer not to go to the gym and not to run.
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I grew up in D.C.
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When it comes to the awards and everything, and the press, the publicity, this is all icing on the cake to me.
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Nothing's out of the realm. I think '24' has always keyed into that.
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We are a diverse people, man.
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I have members of my family who are in the military. I have friends who are in the military. Classmates who served in the military.
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So you want to take the risk, and you want to step out there; you do it because that's what we have to do as actors. And sometimes in TV, it becomes big, and it becomes about the entertainment, but also, we have to focus in on the work.
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Sometimes '24' can seem a little grand. Sometimes these things can seem a little outlandish.
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Heading out to L.A., doing this acting thing. You can't rest on your laurels out there. You finish a film, you don't know how it's going to do. You're talking about that next job, usually.
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We work so hard on our craft, and once we get out of Duke Ellington, there are not going to be people looking for technique. I worry about that a lot.
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There's no wrong choice because, whatever you choose, that's meant for you.
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I want longevity in this career.
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You know how trends go with television. Next year, the networks might not be open to taking risks.
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My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.
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The thing with '24' is that because it moves so much, it's a challenge, and sometimes things get revealed about these characters as you go.
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I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.
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The only pressure, as an actor, is to step into Eric Carter's shoes and make him as fully and as complex and as flawed and as human as I could.