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I have a lot of stories to tell because I've been down a lot of roads people haven't been. JIMMY WALKER
I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor. MARIO LOPEZ As an ambiguously non-white actor, I've been able to play light-skinned African American guys, L...
DANIEL SUNJATA
I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African Am... MALCOLM D. LEE Asian Americans haven't had as many opportunities as other people to build their careers in Holl...
DANIEL WU As an actor, a lot of things you do, people don't see it.
BECK BENNETT Sadly, I haven't been able to find my earliest stories, but the impact of being told by someone ...
DOREEN CRONIN But in the African and African American tradition, stories are fitted to an occasion. You have stori...
CHARLAYNE WOODARD My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I di...
TAMARA TUNIE
Contrary to what a lot of people think, I haven't been domesticated. PRINCE
I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always ... MATT DILLON
Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men... JOYCE MAYNARD
I don't do stuff to be a star. I do it because I feel it's important for kids, African Ameri... MATT KEMP
I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though ... TINA FEY The South African government, unlike a lot of African governments, isn't poor.
CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possi...
ED SPELEERS As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't f...
IAN BEATTIE
I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American. YAYA DACOSTA
Most people's journeys haven't been as disjointed as mine. DELTA GOODREM There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. W...
EDWARD JAMES OLMOS
I'm not talking with an American accent. I haven't gone off and become Sammy Hagar. BILLY IDOL I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is...
OSCAR ISAAC It will tell the stories of African-American culture from slavery through civil rights.
LONNIE BUNCH
I haven't played a lot of nice guys. MICHAEL DOUGLAS
I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would ... MAYA ANGELOU
A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-Ame... ZENDAYA As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do w...
MARVIN SAPP
Any staffing changes that disproportionately cut the number of African Americans at CNN - intentiona... MARCIA FUDGE
I don't feel that I was often compartmentalized as an African-American actor, yet I am fully awa... KIM FIELDS My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broad...
SUZAN-LORI PARKS I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway...
LYNN NOTTAGE Within a lot of African-American households, I think, there's an idea that black men don't w...
GABRIELLE UNION
We look at the African-American community, for a long time those of us who be considered strong - bl... RYAN COOGLER
I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, bl... FAYE WATTLETON
Racism is a sign of ignorance, in my opinion. It's people who haven't been anywhere, haven&#... TYSON FURY It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R...
JANELLE MONAE As an African-American, you think of slavery as being associated with (our people). But here you rea...
JOHN JONES Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minute...
ERIK KING You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an act...
IAN SOMERHALDER I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or drama...
MIREILLE ENOS
We owe an historic debt to American Indians. They have a unique set of concerns that haven't bee... AL FRANKEN
There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports. J. C. WATTS Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as we...
CHANEL IMAN
I haven't checked this out yet, but one of our guys told me we have a counselor within 45 minute... KAREN MILLS
An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better o... PAUL LYNDE There's a lot of pressure being an actor and taking on challenges that people don't expect o...
DAVID DENMAN There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been d...
SIMON TRAVAGLIA
I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the Ameri... IRWIN WINKLER Approximately 40 percent of our African-American teachers were hired in the last five years. And for...
DOUG YOUNG
There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community... J. C. WATTS The statement that I made and that I think I will continue to make is that racism and bigotry isn...
OCTAVIA SPENCER Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving the...
YOUSSOU N'DOUR
Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't alw... FRANCES MCDORMAND
Obama is not an African American president, but a president of all Americans. It doesn't matter ... JOHN LEWIS It's funny, because I've never thought of myself as a Hispanic actor, like in 'American ...
YUL VAZQUEZ
You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part. JOHN MCENROE Everyone says we have our first African American president. Has there ever been a Jewish president? ...
MONTE IRVIN It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel ...
CAMERON CROWE As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of ...
ELDEN HENSON
There was a lot of feeling that with an African-American president, life on the South Side of Chicag... MARK KIRK I think, though, as African-American women, we are always trained to value our community even at the...
ANITA HILL Anyone reading contemporary poetry - especially contemporary African-American poetry - will quickly ...
TERRANCE HAYES
For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven'... GRETE WAITZ I love to act. And oh-so-love telling stories through film as an actor. Even on my 'days off....
T. J. THYNE I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumen...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN I know that baseball players have certain rituals or habits that they develop, because sometimes it ...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a te...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audience...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pres...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN I'm the kind of guy who comes home and checks scores for everything. I'm a sports fan in gen...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spirit...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're ...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any mor...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting o...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother ...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.
CHADWICK BOSEMAN In television you don't have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you g...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an act...
CATHERINE KEENER
For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers. SHAH RUKH KHAN
You try to pick good stories, and that's pretty much all the control you have as an actor. MICHAEL CERA The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gott...
JAMES EARL JONES A lot of our history has not been told.
DONALD SOCTOMAH
As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories ... TA-NEHISI COATES I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was ir...
DAVID BOREANAZ I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know w...
CLAIRE FOY
I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an act... AMITABH BACHCHAN
My risk tolerance is higher than some people's, but it's not nearly as high as some people&#... ANDREW SOLOMON We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left ...
MARTIN O'MALLEY
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevit... REBECCA HALL The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who have...
MALORIE BLACKMAN It's a really important thing for Aboriginal people to remember how stories are told and the pow...
ALEXIS WRIGHT I'm an immigrant writer, or an African writer, or an Ethiopian-American writer, and occasionally...
DINAW MENGESTU I'm not as good a singer as I am an actor. So that's why I - the stories I like so much is b...
ANDY GRIFFITH
A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility. 
Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, qui... 
The game was being sharply played on both sides, and I watched it with deeper interest than any prev... 
Secrecy is the badge of fraud. 