Colman Domingo Quotes

Colman Domingo

Profession : Actor

Birth : November 28, 1969

From afar, I have cried watching my nation, sore with prejudice, slowly heal itself. I hurt along with America, my phantom pains only alleviated by work I do every day - art.

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The gift of working on a Robert O'Hara play is that you have to trust his language. It's all in there. You don't have to add one single thing.

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I missed my entrance in a production of 'Blade to the Heat' at Thick Description in San Francisco. I came into the scene very late and hugged the punching bag. I had no idea what to do! Unfortunately, that mishap was recorded for archives at UC Berkeley. It goes down in history.

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My mother sent me to speech classes, but the other kids still teased me. I was shy. I stooped. Instead of talking, I kept journals. That's where my love of words comes from. I majored in journalism.

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Other people can write grown-up, political plays about the troubles in the world. My plays deal with magic and hope.

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On stage, I have felt most fulfilled as a playwright, for everything I create gets to grow and evolve with collaboration from directors, actors, and so on.

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My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what other people do. It's the same with my writing. I write what I know. Structurally, I write in a very undisciplined way.

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I grew up in West Philly, and I took an acting class at Temple University there. Then, after school, I moved to San Francisco.

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I have so many books that are sitting around half-read.

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Out of all of the things I've written, 'Dot' was the quickest from first thoughts to full production.

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I was nervous about doing 'Scottsboro Boys' because I'm not a trained dancer, and there is a lot of very athletic dancing involved.

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There was a Ta-Nehisi Coates book called 'Between the World and Me' that I read the prologue, and I was so decimated by it that I couldn't even get through the rest of the book.

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When I create and write for TV, I build universes that will have arcs lasting seasons, whereas theatre allows me to explore storylines that will open up for two hours or less. Both are wonderfully fulfilling, but they couldn't be more different.

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When you're doing exactly what you want to do, it's not tiring. You've been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a full garden in bloom; you're like, 'Oh, I just want to smell the flowers and play among the flowers all day.' That's what I'm doing. I'm playing among the flowers.

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My first professional job was with Berkeley Repertory Theatre. I started out in an educational touring play and eventually starred on their stages. That was the theatre that nurtured me to expand as an artist.

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I think writing a solo play was the most liberating thing I ever did.

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I started writing because I saw such a huge lack of complex stories about the inner city.

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I know how to lead a room, but I also know how to take direction and be a contributor as an artist.

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The first time I read 'Barbecue,' I fell in love with it. I never laughed so hard in my life.

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At some point, I'm just of the mind that no art is perfect, and it shouldn't be perfect. I think it's beautiful in its imperfection. You could tweak something forever, but you have to let it go and trust it.

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