Ashton Sanders Quotes

Ashton Sanders

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 24, 1995

'Moonlight' has changed my life externally but also internally... spiritually as well.

Ashton Sanders

It's really crazy looking back on my bullies or whoever was trying to torment me or tease me, because karma is just, like, crazy.

Ashton Sanders

I was skinny and black and didn't play sports. And I was bullied.

Ashton Sanders

America isn't made for the black man.

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I'd say my heart is more in independents, but sometimes these major films come along that are pretty good, you know?

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I didn't know that '12 Years a Slave' was being filmed at the same time we were making 'The Retrieval.'

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I auditioned for 'Moonlight' without knowing anything. I went in the room, and I didn't know the lines as well as I should have. I didn't know a thing about the script. I wasn't told anything. I heard it was a low-budget film, and my agent told me to do it. I was super-ignorant to it.

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I do my own thing, and a lot of people don't. I just move my own way.

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I would just encourage my younger self to not care about people's perceptions and to love myself fully and to keep progressing and striving for what you are going to become.

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I was bullied in elementary to middle school. It messed with my self esteem.

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I don't think things will lead me astray, as long as I'm tapped into myself.

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I wanna be Mahershala Ali in my next life. He's the man. He's a really genuine guy. He's a really great guy, one of my favorite people on this planet.

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If you noticed, I wear high-water pants and white socks, which is inspired by the mod '60s, like the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, what have you. That style of dress during that time is really, really dope to me.

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I bury things in the back of my mind I don't really want to deal with.

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It's going to sound cliche, but I started acting as an emotional outlet.

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There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.

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It's my job as an artist and as an actor to use this platform to make people learn and grow, to change their perspectives on how things are in whatever way I can.

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There's so many strict ideas and rules, whether it's from religion or it's just generations and generations.

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Anything that's outside the standard of the average black male is looked down upon. For me, I wasn't raised playing sports. I was artistic, so that was looked down upon by people in my church, and I was teased for that growing up in school, so it goes both ways.

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Sometimes people are vulnerable. And that's fine.

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