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" Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life. "
Life
Living
Way
" Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation. "
Good
Material
Open
" Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn't matter how good you are. "
Black
You
White
" Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don't know what a child actor is. She's an actor who's a child. "
Wonderful
Actor
Child
" Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift. "
Good
Job
People
" Growing up I didn't watch movies. "
Growing Up
Watch
Growing
" I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule. "
Been
Exception
Rule
" I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. "
Laziness
Been
More
" I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter. "
Been
Party
Myself
" If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it. "
Cup
Effort
Think
" If you don't trust the pilot, don't go. "
You
Pilot
Go
" If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her. "
Know
Mad
Learn
" I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated. "
Job
College
Time
" I like talking. I like acting. "
Talking
Acting
Like
" I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially. "
Health
Commitment
Together
" I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies. "
Movies
Watch
Buff
" I'm not in the loop; I don't know any actors, really, just the ones I work with. "
Know
Work
Really
" I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question. "
Black
Makeup
Proud
" In any profession it gets to be a grind. "
Profession
Grind
Gets
" I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith. "
Really
Struggle
Never
" In Los Angeles, everyone is a star. "
Star
Los Angeles
Angeles
" I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good. "
Thinking
Sit
Me
" I read the Bible every day. "
Read
Bible
Day
" I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it. "
Along
Opportunity
Say
" I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office. "
Office
Remember
Unemployment
" I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them. "
You
Mentor
Daily
" I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood. "
Women
Hollywood
Opportunities
" It's simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they're done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it's what they see. That's where my head is at. "
Movies
People
You
" I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me. "
Pick
Scripts
Me
" I've worked in a factory. I was a garbage man. I worked in a post office. It's not that long ago. I like to think that I'm just a regular guy. "
Long
Garbage
Think
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