Hill Harper Quotes

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Hill Harper

Profession : Actor

Birth : May 17, 1966

If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing?

Hill Harper

I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.

Hill Harper

Credit card interest payments are the dumbest money of all.

Hill Harper

'The Conversation' will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

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I think our biggest problem is lack of real, honest communication between black men and black women. A lot of men talk amongst men, and a lot of women speak amongst women.

Hill Harper

Let me tell you, if you're ever making a decision and the principle reason you'll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision.

Hill Harper

Screening for colon cancer can stop cancer in its tracks.

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Gabrielle Union is my best friend.

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When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that's fine, but we don't need to see you do a 'Schindler's List,' where there's no jokes or music or comedic through-line.

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I would suggest that folks who have a platform of so-called celebrity, to the extent that they don't use that platform, or if they just use it for their own self-aggrandizement, it is certainly fed in a way that it goes to waste.

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You can't have justice unless you have truth.

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The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first.

Hill Harper

I'm not the biggest star in the world, but I do have a platform, and if I can use that platform to help somebody else, why wouldn't I?

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Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles - is not doing well, then I'm not doing very well.

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You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison.

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You can live a healthy lifestyle and do the best to be aware of your body and conscious, and that's what I attempt to do.

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I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater.

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Roles make the actor.

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I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There's so many things that all of us have the capacity to do. But somehow, life tries to convince us that we'd be lucky to do even one thing well, and I disagree.

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There are so many actors that I meet that don't act enough. Definitely take class, definitely train - that's the most important thing you do. Build your craft. Become better.

Hill Harper