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All Quotes by author - Omari Hardwick

" Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake. "

" Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one. "

" A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all. "

" As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it. "

" As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences. "

" As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other. "

" Craft is everything. "

" 'Dark Blue' was a really solid show, and it stopped at season two. "

" Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful. "

" For a long time, I had been very secretive about a lot of the things I'd been through personally, and a lot of that is purposeful. My fan base, for the large part, is the younger generation. They're like, 'I want to know everything! I want to know it all!' "

" For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one. "

" For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle. "

" For me, music was a cathartic way to free me from the nut of Ghost. After working on set for 'Power' for 14 hours, it allowed me to pour my sanity and insanity into the music. "

" I always go into a character thinking, 'If it scares me, I can do it.' "

" I always had an interest in telling stories. "

" I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet. "

" I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years. "

" I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever. "

" I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway. "

" I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat. "

" I don't make a big deal out of playing football at UGA to people who have interviewed me. "

" I don't think there's a fan out there who hasn't had a family member or known someone personally who's been in the midst of divorce - perhaps not necessarily gotten the divorce or executed it, or perhaps they have - and still, in many cases, they found themselves back with the person that they were married to. "

" I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well. "

" I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well. "

" If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind. "

" If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell. "

" I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist. "

" If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness. "

" If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters. "

" If you remain open to great directors who look like you, who know what they're doing and are making impactful films that are destroying these 'blockbuster films,' you can do okay, and everybody can get more of a piece of the pie. But you've got to be open and brave. "

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