Ashton Sanders Quotes

Ashton Sanders

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 24, 1995

I feel like a lot of black men 'put on' because of what they see and because of what people tell them they have to be.

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I'm very much of an individual myself, and I do things sometimes that the next person probably won't, or wouldn't, do because they're not me.

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We all have perceptions or boxes that we put each other in.

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I had high hopes for 'Moonlight,' just off the reaction I had while reading the script.

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I like to dress the way I like to dress. I kind of like rebelling against the social norms... I feel uncomfortable wearing just, like, regular stuff.

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I think that's the most important part of doing this job, is learning different personality types. I mean, it's kind of like sociology or psychology in a sense. With that, and with every project I do, I think I'm able to pull something away that further makes me understand humanity in a way I didn't before.

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We're raised to believe that black men have to be one specific way.

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I want to keep doing projects that speak for people within the community and tell different types of meaningful stories.

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To be able to inspire somebody just by doing something that you love, just by creating your art, is something that's very near and dear to my heart.

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For my career, I want to be able to do projects that have serious context to them or that make me grow as a person and an artist after the experience.

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I'm getting the training I need to progress as an actor. If something comes up and I have to drop, I'll drop.

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It's awesome that my job is to make people have reactions.

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I'm acting! And doing it for income! But it's for something that I love, and that's super rare.

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I wasn't like the rest of the kids. I was an artist. Living in a black society, when you're raised around a bunch of boys who plays sports and chase girls, there's this perception of masculinity that's super hard to fit into. I wasn't the stereotype of that like a lot of my peers were.

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There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned.

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A lot of these artists are out here don't stay true to why they started doing this in the first place.

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I think it's cool to be different. That's what cool is.

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I definitely wasn't the kid playing sports. I was super different.

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I grew up doing theatre, where I was jumping in and out of plays, year round.

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My whole life has changed so much, and it's still constantly changing, but 'Moonlight' brought about a bunch of opportunities that were really surreal, from the Oscars and Golden Globes to the notoriety that it brought, to even doing things like working with Calvin Klein.

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