Omari Hardwick Quotes

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Omari Hardwick

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 9, 1974

Women are so necessary for us in terms of support.

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Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.

Omari Hardwick

You can't look at the dollar and say, 'I'm not what I dreamed of being unless I do this type of movie and it's a blockbuster that gives me this amount of dollars.' That's not good.

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If you remain open to great directors who look like you, who know what they're doing and are making impactful films that are destroying these 'blockbuster films,' you can do okay, and everybody can get more of a piece of the pie. But you've got to be open and brave.

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Women are amazing lovers.

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A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.

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I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.

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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.

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I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring.

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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.

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I was definitely a Daddy's boy.

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I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.

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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.

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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.

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That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.

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I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.

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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.

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I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.

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Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land.

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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.

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