Chadwick Boseman Quotes:- Chadwick Boseman (November 29, 1976[a] – August 28, 2020) was an American actor. Boseman was known for his portrayals of heroic and real-life individuals. During his two-decade career, Boseman received multiple accolades, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Critics’ Choice Movie Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and an Academy Award nomination.
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“I don’t have a smart house. My house is very dumb.”
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“The only difference between a hero and a villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.”
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“I’m not so keen on letting my car drive itself.”
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“There’s nothing more stressful than your stomach growling. But interestingly enough, some of my best writing came when I was poor and hungry – living off water and oatmeal, mind clear.”
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“I’m not afraid to work.”
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“As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven’t been told.”
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“A superhero movie is only as great as its villains.”
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“Nobody has to give me permission to write.”
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“I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.”
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“I don’t read reviews, but I do get feedback from my peers and people I know, like other actors and directors and producers.”
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“I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.”
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“When you make movies, it’s such an important period of time, when you look back at each one of them. You want to be able to say that you did something that was a challenge and that changed you.”
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“I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, ‘I’m going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,’ or anything like that.”
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“As soon as I came to L.A., things immediately shifted for me. I was now actually here with the people who were making the decisions; I wasn’t out in New York sending in tapes to L.A.”
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“Even after I became involved in theater and involved in TV and film, I had this sort of idea that Hollywood was off-limits. There was something about L.A., the mystique of it and fear of it.”
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“When you’re doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally, and physically.”
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“When they call you and say, ‘So you want to play ‘Black Panther?” if you know what ‘Black Panther’ is, there’s no way in the world you’re going to say no because there’s a lot of opportunity for magic to happen.”
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“People have said, ‘You don’t need to do any more biopics. You don’t need to play any more real people.’ I don’t agree with that.”
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“Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.”
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“I try to look at every role the same way, regardless of whether the character is real or the character is a fantasy. I always start from myself, because you have to know yourself first.”
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“You’re not free unless you can show the good and the bad, all sides of them. So to me, when I play a character, it’s important that I can show every aspect of them.”
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“It was a big thing for me to read black writers. ‘Fences,’ by August Wilson. James Baldwin’s ‘Amen Corner.’ ‘The Fire Next Time.’ ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X,’ of course.”
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“I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It helped me to deal with some of the complications of living in the South because I always felt like I belonged, no matter what.”
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“There are some stories I want to tell that I think it’d be cool to see an African-American dude do.”
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“One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, ‘Don’t judge the character.'”
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“I got scars from every film I’ve done, every TV show.”
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“Guys are natural problem solvers – they like to have strategies.”
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“I know that baseball players have certain rituals or habits that they develop because sometimes it becomes somewhat superstitious if they get on a streak and want to do the same thing over and over again.”
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“I might have had too many friends in my twenties.”
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“I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.”
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“When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that first meeting.”
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“When you play characters, you shouldn’t just be putting on their characteristics – you should be finding it inside yourself.”
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“You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.”
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“When it comes down to it, I’d rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.”
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“The thing I love about Marvel, in general, is that they deal with people. They deal with the human being first: Who is inside the suit? Who is the person that obtained this power or this ability?”
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“For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or being the originator or creator of something.”
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“I’m the kind of guy who comes home and checks scores for everything. I’m a sports fan in general, so I pretty much keep up with who’s ahead in a division and everything that’s going on.”
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“Sometimes when you’re acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.”
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“I’m not really interested in being a superhero. That’s not a box I’ve been trying to check off.”
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“We live in a world where people can ridicule you at the push of the button. They can question you at the push of a button.”
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“I remember my first agent telling me – because they found me as an actor, but I was probably more interested in writing and maybe directing – they were like, ‘Well, you can’t do both things.’ And I was like, ‘I’m gonna show you.'”
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“I’m an artist. Artists don’t need permission to work. Regardless of whether I’m acting or not, I write. I write when I’m tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.”
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“I can definitely dance, but pedestrian dancing.”
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“The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it’s not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.”
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“As a director, it is important to understand the actor’s process.”
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“I wasn’t a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, ‘Oh, I have this comic book here.’ It wasn’t like I was collecting them.”
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“I can’t even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.”
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“Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.”
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“I would go through these cycles of being really, really focused on work, and not being around anyone, to being around everyone. And that could be distracting. It was nothing or everything.”
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“Actors can have a fair amount of hate for each other, so when another actor says, ‘You did your thing,’ or ‘That was inspiring,’ you can’t really ask for more than that.”
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“I think the most stressful time of my life was when I was in New York, and I didn’t have money to pay my rent.”
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“Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they’re not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.”
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“I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.”
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“They should probably have a James Brown aerobic tape. You would lose a lot of weight.”
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“I’d taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn’t a musical theater person at all.”
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“I said yes too much. I said yes to certain projects that weren’t for me. It was somebody else’s vision and somebody else’s dream and somebody else’s artistic endeavor, but it didn’t necessarily fit in my grand scheme.”
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“The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that will be impactful, for the most part, to my people – to black people.”
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“People don’t want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it’s different.”
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