Chadwick Boseman Quotes

You're not free unless you can show the good and the bad, all sides of them. So to me, when I play a character, it's important that I can show every aspect of them.

Chadwick Boseman

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• At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Work
  • She
  • Earth

• I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Now

• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Man
  • Team
  • Ingredient

• We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Great
  • Country
  • Trust

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Acting

• There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Unique
  • Better
  • Cold

• What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future but it's always based on what we have. Then as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas. You know?

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Time
  • Future
  • Science

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Marriage

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Words
  • Loss
  • Even

• The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers - the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Women
  • Want
  • Trouble

• Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Two

• I was trying to establish an identity in music, and black and white had nothing to do with it.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Black

• Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Up
  • You
  • See

• Women are just much better at getting degrees than men. It seems that school at every level plays to the natural strengths of women more than it does to men.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • School

• I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Audience
  • Write
  • Require

• You have to figure out what's important and keep the main points, though I will swing a little outside the box. It affords me the freedom to find out who the character is, and it's been a positive technique for me. I'm not saying everyone should change words, but if you can do it with confidence, you may nail it.

  

  Dawn Olivieri
  • Important
  • May
  • Character

• The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Good
  • Christianity
  • Recognize

• I worked on 'Always and Forever, Lara Jean' for a few months before I breathed a word of it my editor or agent.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Forever

• The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough.

  

  John Sayles
  • Character
  • Movie

• I used to be naive. I didn't realize the value of being a whole performer... People start to care about you when they know more about you and see different aspects of your personality.

  

  AJ Lee
  • People
  • Different
  • Value

• You're not free unless you can show the good and the bad, all sides of them. So to me, when I play a character, it's important that I can show every aspect of them.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Character