Chadwick Boseman Quotes
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The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
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You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.
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People don't want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it's different.
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Once you start getting big roles as an actor, everything pays. So what are you making decisions on? It's about the director or the script or whatever. But before you reach that point, you're taking jobs with, say, a theater company, in spite of the fact that it's not paying your bills.
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I'm not really interested in being a superhero. That's not a box I've been trying to check off.
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I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.
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I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When you play basketball seriously, a lot of times, through the summer season, you continue playing. So that replaced me playing baseball.
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The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.
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As soon as I came to L.A., things immediately shifted for me. I was now actually here with the people who were making the decisions; I wasn't out in New York sending in tapes to L.A.
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Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.
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As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.
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I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else's story and the hero in your own, and I think very often, African-American characters are either one thing or the other. You shouldn't have to be perfectly good or perfectly bad. You don't even have to be magical.
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I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It helped me to deal with some of the complications of living in the South because I always felt like I belonged, no matter what.
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I have my own personal masticating juicer at home. I sort of picked it up from friends a few years ago, and it just gives me more energy. Mostly green juice. Spinach, celery, kale, green apples, lemon, sometimes ginger - you know, like, nasty, euuugghhhh!
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Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.
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Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.
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There's the phrase of 'making America great again,' but how did we make America great? Who did it? It was Thurgood Marshall who did it. It was Thurgood Marshall who made America live up to its constitution, to its dream. He pushed the envelope to make sure that we were equal.
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I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.
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Nobody has to give me permission to write.
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Actors can have a fair amount of hate for each other, so when another actor says, 'You did your thing,' or 'That was inspiring,' you can't really ask for more than that.
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In television you don't have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it's even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.
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There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling. But interestingly enough, some of my best writing came when I was poor and hungry - living off water and oatmeal, mind clear.
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Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.
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There are some stories I want to tell that I think it'd be cool to see an African-American dude do.