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" A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support. "
Wentworth Miller
Yourself
Support
Identity
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" I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often. "
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" When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street. "
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" My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities. "
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" The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women pouring their hearts out and, for security reasons, I can only respond with a headshot and 'Dear so and so, be good. WM.' It never feels like enough. "
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" I've never read a book or attended a class on screenwriting. I'm not opposed to the idea, but I like what I've got going on naturally and want to protect that. The one question I will ask myself as I'm re-reading a script for the 60th time is, 'Am I entertained? Still?' If the answer is 'yes,' I'll assume other people will be, too. "
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" I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment. "
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" When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.' "
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" My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion. "
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Reunion
Group
Racism
" I surrender the idea of having some kind of control over the arc of my career a lot of the time because you never know what tomorrow's going to bring. "
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" I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it. "
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" Growing up, I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test, and there were a thousand ways to fail, a thousand ways to betray yourself, to not live up to someone else's standards of what was accepted, of what was normal. "
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Test
Yourself
" Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible. "
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Impossible
Prison
Believe
" My character in 'Prison Break' needs to be formidable. In reality, I'm not very tough at all. "
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Tough
Reality
Prison
" I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks. "
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American
" I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too. "
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Too
Feel
" There's nothing the Internet can tell me about myself that I don't already know. The rest is foolishness and people killing time. "
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Internet
Time
Rest
" There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer. "
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Remember
Day
Kind
" Prison has a universal fascination. It's a real-life horror story because, given the right set of circumstances, anyone could find themselves behind bars. "
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" I'm pretty much a couch potato. "
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" It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult. "
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Parents
" I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick. "
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Large
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" I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine. "
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Me
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" My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV. "
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" I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do. "
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" I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly. "
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" I certainly learned how to break down a text at Princeton, which helps me break down a script - or at least that's the line I feed my parents when they start wondering where all that good money went. "
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