Columbus Short Quotes

There are as many quality African-American actors and actresses as Caucasians, but it seems that they get a lot more opportunities.

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I think there's a time when your personal life gets magnified by who we are as celebrities.

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Little Walter and Muddy Waters were incredible. And Bo Diddley was doing some great stuff, too.

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Sometimes you get yourselves in situations where you don't realize people are actually testing you. People are actually provoking you.

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Everybody who knows me is like, 'Dude, you've got to chill out.' I can't not work, given where I want to be.

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I'm afraid of what happens if this career doesn't pan out, because I have so much invested in it that I can't turn back now.

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I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things.

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It's like, if you're on a ship, and you're sailing towards your destination, but the ship sinks: that doesn't mean that you have to sink. Just because the ship sinks doesn't mean you have to sink. You just figure it out until a raft comes along, and God will send you a raft. Or He'll send you another boat to get you to your destination.

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I've always been apprehensive about doing comic books, period.

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Be a creator, not just sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone to call you into the game or call our number.

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I never want to have to take certain roles, because I want to maintain a certain level of artistic credibility. But sometimes you're forced to do things for the money.

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I love working to push the industry forward.

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If I want to be truthfully honest, I think, dealing with the stress of the situations that I've been going through, medicating with anything, I think, is dangerous because it becomes a crutch.

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Creating content, creating art, material, being a job creator - it's all very, very important. Very important.

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There's a myriad of things that go into why movies don't happen right when you make them. If you make a movie in 2010, sometimes it takes up to a year for post-production, and that puts you into 2011, then you have to figure out what your product is, and that takes some time.

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I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.

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I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

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You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.

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With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

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The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.

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I've never put my hands on a woman, physically, ever.

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Have I ever abused a woman? Never.

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I just can't relax. That's my problem.

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When you do an action movie, you've got to come prepared to do an action movie.

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There comes a time when you have to exercise patience.

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