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Chadwick Boseman

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 29, 1976

I would go through these cycles of being really, really focused on work, and not being around anyone, to being around everyone. And that could be distracting. It was nothing or everything.

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I can't even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.

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The thing I love about Marvel in general is that they deal with people. They deal with the human being first: Who is inside the suit? Who is the person that obtained this power or this ability?

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When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

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I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.

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There's the phrase of 'making America great again,' but how did we make America great? Who did it? It was Thurgood Marshall who did it. It was Thurgood Marshall who made America live up to its constitution, to its dream. He pushed the envelope to make sure that we were equal.

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I think the most stressful time of my life was when I was in New York, and I didn't have money to pay my rent.

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Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.

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I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

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I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.

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There are some stories I want to tell that I think it'd be cool to see an African-American dude do.

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I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.

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I got scars from every film I've done, every TV show.

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Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don't tear the muscles from the bones.

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Even after I became involved in theater and involved in TV and film, I had this sort of idea that Hollywood was off limits. There was something about L.A., the mystique of it and fear of it.

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I'm not one of those guys who walks around with a flip phone who doesn't want to be connected. There are times when I'm tech-friendly, and there are times when I personally do want to shut everything off because I'm more creative when I shut off.

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I'm the kind of guy who comes home and checks scores for everything. I'm a sports fan in general, so I pretty much keep up with who's ahead in a division and everything that's going on.

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I don't read reviews, but I do get feedback from my peers and people I know, like other actors and directors and producers.

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I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.

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The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

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