Chadwick Boseman Quotes
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.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
In television you don't have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it's even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
I can't even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
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.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
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.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
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.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
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.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
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.'
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
As an African-American actor, a lot of our stories haven't been told.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
A superhero movie is only as great as its villains.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
I might have had too many friends in my twenties.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
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.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
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.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
When I got out of school, I didn't really understand the differences in the different aspects of the business. For example, doing a play - where does that take you versus, you know, concentrating on independent films? You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
I don't have a smart house. My house is very dumb.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
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.
Chadwick Boseman
American actor
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