Chadwick Boseman Quotes

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Chadwick Boseman

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 29, 1976

Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.

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People don't want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it's different.

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The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.

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Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.

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I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

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I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else's story and the hero in your own, and I think very often, African-American characters are either one thing or the other. You shouldn't have to be perfectly good or perfectly bad. You don't even have to be magical.

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It was a big thing for me to read black writers. 'Fences,' by August Wilson. James Baldwin's 'Amen Corner.' 'The Fire Next Time.' 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' of course.

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I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It helped me to deal with some of the complications of living in the South because I always felt like I belonged, no matter what.

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We live in a world where people can ridicule you at the push of the button. They can question you at the push of a button.

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As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.

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There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling. But interestingly enough, some of my best writing came when I was poor and hungry - living off water and oatmeal, mind clear.

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I'm not afraid to work.

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When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

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For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or being the originator or creator of something.

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One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, 'Don't judge the character.'

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Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.

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I'm from Anderson, S.C., but I grew up in the South. So I know what it is to ride to school and have Confederate flags flying from trucks in front of me and behind me, to see a parking lot full of people with Confederate flags and know what that means. I've been stopped by police for no reason.

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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.

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When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that first meeting.

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I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

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