Nnamdi Asomugha Quotes

Nnamdi Asomugha

Profession : Actor

Birth : July 6, 1981

It's really refreshing to get these types of moments when people can say, 'Yeah, you're one of the best.'

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I hate the term black sheep, but I just felt like I wasn't keeping up. It was a subtle pressure I put on myself.

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As far as acting, I just went in and just started training. It was the first thing I did right when I retired. I just went in and found class, and found people, found the right coaches that could sort of just train me along.

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I come from a performing family. My parents are Nigerian, and their parents and their parents - and it's all about performance in their culture, you know. The music. The dancing... you're told to stand out at family gatherings and perform in some sort of way. You're just kind of born into it.

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Anytime you leave something you've done and where you've been for nearly a decade, it's going to be different.

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I'm really bad at self-promotion.

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People told me all of the time, 'You could be such a big star if you just talked about yourself more,' but I'm not good at that. It's always been about team.

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I was never a big spender.

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For athletes, it's extremely tough to trust people with your finances. It's so easy to be victimized.

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When I hear about a player losing his money, I'll rarely, if ever, point a finger at the player because I know how difficult it is. It's not always, 'Look at this idiot who got paid all these millions of dollars and lost it all.' It may be more like, 'This naive kid with a million things going on in his life put his faith in the wrong people.'

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I talked to a lot of people that switched careers. Not necessarily to acting, but switched jobs. The 'becoming a student again' is the thing that always kept coming up.

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I enjoy stories that can spark a conversation.

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I'm always willing to help out when people have stories and they bring them to me. I also like the completely fun films like 'Patti Cake$.' My taste is, if it feels like it's something I'd like to see, then I'll get behind it.

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In film, there's always this looking for the 'If you lay down and burst into tears, you did a good job.'

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I don't learn as well, I think, in like a structured way. I kind of have to be thrown into it.

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I didn't have the luxury of going to the four year school for acting.

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As far as producing, I was thrown into it on a film called Beasts of No Nation when we were in Ghana three months after I retired.

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I was maybe halfway through my career, and I was shooting a Nike commercial, and the director came to the trailer and said, 'Hey man, you're really gifted at this. I get a lot of athletes that come in, but you were prepared, and you made everything seem very natural. I really think you should look into this.'

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I think any time you get a boost of confidence, it fuels you to do more, and that kept happening for me.

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When I was a kid, my aunt snuck us into see 'Boyz n the Hood.'

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