What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.
- Charles S. Dutton
August, Otherwise, Learned, Ounce
Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.
- Charles S. Dutton
Box, Out, Juan, Jab
I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.
- Charles S. Dutton
School, Go, Film School, Acting School
First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.
- Charles S. Dutton
Fifteen, Films, Amount, First Of All
And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.
- Charles S. Dutton
Like, Again, Everybody, Misses
For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you're going to be stuck with it for two years, and if you don't love it it's going to look like that on screen.
- Charles S. Dutton
Love, Like, Going, Stuck
I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
- Charles S. Dutton
Projects, Couple, Half, HBO
Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.
- Charles S. Dutton
Money, Ever, Easiest, Directing
This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.
- Charles S. Dutton
Sort, Fell, Lap, Directing
Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.
- Charles S. Dutton
Guy, Again, Could, Real Life
I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.
- Charles S. Dutton
Actor, Still, However, Commercial
The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.
- Charles S. Dutton
Want, Other, Studio, Anything Else
You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.
- Charles S. Dutton
Feet, You, Nothing, Hundred
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