Malik Yoba Quotes

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Malik Yoba

Profession : Actor

Birth : September 17, 1967

Fantasies are not always what people think they are.

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At the end of the day, there's so much work that has to be done to impact positive change in any direction you look.

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Most people haven't figured out when you are of service to other people outside of just yourself, the doorway for opportunity and blessings come in a very very different way.

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I come up from a music background.

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We didn't even have a T.V. in my house until I was 13. My dad called it the 'idiot box.'

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When you engage with people as an artist you know exactly what they feel and what they're thinking.

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When I'm doing a role the one thing I ask is 'Is this believable? am I being truthful?'

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People think acting is just memorizing lines and doing facial expressions. No it's about traveling along a path of discovery, intention and connection.

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I'm a dad; I started a program for young men when my first child was born.

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At the end of the day, people like drama - if everything is great, no one wants to hear about that.

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In my experience on 'New York Undercover,' where I played a dad, I was 26 years old, and I didn't have kids then. And at that time, it would blow me away that people said they became a better parent because of watching my role on that TV show.

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The issues that black men face oftentimes are the issues that everyone faces. Do you have the ability to be present? Are you working on yourself? Do you understand what it means to be a man? To be responsible, loving, vulnerable?

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Playing Martin Luther King Jr. was an honor for me on so many levels. It was the most I've ever prepared for a role.

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It's very rare that Black actors get an opportunity to do period pieces and to have a breadth of characters to choose from in their work.

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I know that my fans, who have followed me for years, want to know what I'm doing.

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If you go back and look at the pilot of 'Seinfeld,' no one would have thought that show would be what it became, and television isn't given that kind of chance anymore.

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When you do a pilot, you can't always tell what you have.

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I've played lots of law enforcement agents, and I do have friends that are in the bureau, in the DEA, and who are detectives and captains.

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