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" And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay. "
Morris Chestnut
Think
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" When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you. "
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" I'm not going to take my shirt off in every movie. "
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" You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try. "
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" Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing. "
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" I would like more challenging roles. I definitely would like to something that's more challenging. "
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" This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is. "
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" At one point, people thought that Eddie Murphy would only reach one sector of the audience, but now everyone sees everything Eddie Murphy does. "
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" I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that. "
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" I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film. "
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" To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off. "
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" It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again. "
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