Omari Hardwick Quotes

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Omari Hardwick

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 9, 1974

My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.

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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.

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I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon.

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People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'

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I know that Donald Trump is a smart man.

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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.

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On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol.

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I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.

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Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.

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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.

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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.

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I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.

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I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.

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When I think about the person who's been most in my ear, it's Joe Dumars.

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You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

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If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.

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The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.

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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

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What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

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When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.

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