Boris Kodjoe Quotes:- Boris Kodjoe ( born March 8, 1973) is an Austrian-born actor of German and Ghanaian descent known for his roles as Kelby in the 2002 film Brown Sugar, the sports-courier agent Damon Carter on the Showtime drama series Soul Food.
Inspirational Boris Kodjoe Quotes
I know I can act and it doesn’t matter where you come from.
Boris Kodjoe
You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that’s what I and my wife have. We don’t need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it’s important to educate the kids about that.
Boris Kodjoe
Yet, that’s what studios do. If one thing works, they’ll keep doing it till it runs its course and people aren’t interested anymore.
Boris Kodjoe
Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn’t going to settle.
Boris Kodjoe
The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch the tape, and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.
Boris Kodjoe
Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn’t need a man. I think that’s wrong. I think we all need someone.
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Best Boris Kodjoe Quotes
Let’s say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
Boris Kodjoe
I went back and researched the history of the gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.
Boris Kodjoe
I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.
Boris Kodjoe
I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.
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I had to study acting to basically educate myself.
Boris Kodjoe
I don’t care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, at their own pace.
Boris Kodjoe
Don’t ignore the past, but deal with it, at your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don’t, the past will come back to haunt you and keep coming back to haunt you.
Boris Kodjoe
I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn’t know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.
Boris Kodjoe
I just didn’t know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me.
Boris Kodjoe
Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It’s very exterior.
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