Doing Quotes
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I'd rather have 100,000 people who really get what I'm doing and like it for what it is than a million who can take it or leave it.
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For a good five years I didn't know where home was, I barely had very much time to think about anything but doing what I was doing.
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Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.
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I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.
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You got to work hard whatever you're doing and try to be number one and take pride in what you're doing. You want to be at the best at your spot then you got to work hard, man. A lot of guys don't work as hard as it gonna take.
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I grew up doing musicals in my childhood at school, along with all the plays I used to be involved in.
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We must become just be doing just acts.
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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
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Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
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I have before and I'll do it again. I'm in touch with my feminine side.
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I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
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If you remain open to great directors who look like you, who know what they're doing and are making impactful films that are destroying these 'blockbuster films,' you can do okay, and everybody can get more of a piece of the pie. But you've got to be open and brave.
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I remember Nayim at Tottenham dived all over the place, and we used to say to him, 'What are you doing?' You do talk about it.
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If you don't like what you're doing, get out.
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I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.
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If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?
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I remember doing stand-up at an open mic a long time ago, and the MC was like, 'Who's next?' I said, 'Marietta Sirleaf,' and he was like, 'What?' And I was like, 'Ugh, okay, just Retta.' It stuck with me ever since.
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Seeming to do is not doing.
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I've been always clear that I wouldn't do TV soaps just for the sake of doing them. I would rather wait and work on projects which enable me to make an impact.
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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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I think I'm an athlete who's trained as an actor, and when you smash it all together, you get whatever Omari is doing as a performer right now.
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Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz.
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Some people are brilliant on the first take, some people are brilliant on the fourth take, and when you are doing a group scene, you kind of have to figure that out.
