Chadwick Boseman Quotes
When you make movies, it's such an important period of time, when you look back at each one of them. You want to be able to say that you did something that was a challenge and that changed you.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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Any effort to create a second class of Americans, I just can't swallow that.
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
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My whole life is controversy. What can I do? I'm like Britney Spears!
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I hope to direct a feature very soon. That is a big goal for me. I'm looking forward to hopefully getting that opportunity.
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Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.
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When you play the king of elves and alien warlords, little me is very uninteresting. But, at the same time, actors feel this obligation to be transparent, and I truly don't understand the point.
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When you make movies, it's such an important period of time, when you look back at each one of them. You want to be able to say that you did something that was a challenge and that changed you.
