Omari Hardwick Quotes

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Omari Hardwick

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 9, 1974

I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.

Omari Hardwick

I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'

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Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.

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When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man.'

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Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.

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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.

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For a long time, I had been very secretive about a lot of the things I'd been through personally, and a lot of that is purposeful. My fan base, for the large part, is the younger generation. They're like, 'I want to know everything! I want to know it all!'

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I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.

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I use Aveeno cleansers and moisturizers.

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I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.

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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.

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I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.

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I always had an interest in telling stories.

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To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It's the greatest thing you can ever pull off.

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Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & Flow' and lived in both of these outfits. It was one of the best experiences of my professional life.

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Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders.

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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.

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I'm safe where I'm at just being the guy where people go, 'That's a really good actor. What's his name again?' I liked being at that place.

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The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.

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