Corey Hawkins Quotes
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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.
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I didn't grow up seeing faces of patriots, emotional and raw and gritty, who looked like me.
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I like being a chameleon and doing things that are just so different that people will be like, 'Oh, that's him?'
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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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You know how trends go with television. Next year, the networks might not be open to taking risks.
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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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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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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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There's no wrong choice because, whatever you choose, that's meant for you.
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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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Sometimes '24' can seem a little grand. Sometimes these things can seem a little outlandish.
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In 2001, terrorism was fought in a completely different way.
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I grew up in D.C.
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We are a diverse people, man.
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The idea of a new hero for a new day sang to me.
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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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I think, in our darkest moments, you have to find the humor, and you have to find the lightness.
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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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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 want longevity in this career.