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Omari Hardwick

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 9, 1974

It's really rare to come across a character, a show, or a movie that allows you to completely play four or five different characters within a season, let alone a week.

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It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.

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Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'

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I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception.'

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I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans.

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'Dark Blue' was a really solid show, and it stopped at season two.

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You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor.

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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.

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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.

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I think I'm an athlete who's trained as an actor, and when you smash it all together, you get whatever Omari is doing as a performer right now.

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I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day.

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If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.

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Like anybody who grew up in the Eighties, I cringe at the thought of these movies being remade, because of the corniness and cheesiness of the originals.

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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.

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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.

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I don't think there's a fan out there who hasn't had a family member or known someone personally who's been in the midst of divorce - perhaps not necessarily gotten the divorce or executed it, or perhaps they have - and still, in many cases, they found themselves back with the person that they were married to.

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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.

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I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time.

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I don't make a big deal out of playing football at UGA to people who have interviewed me.

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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.

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