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" 'Dark Blue' was a really solid show, and it stopped at season two. "
Omari Hardwick
Blue
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Two
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" 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. "
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Say
Fool
Die
" 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. "
Omari Hardwick
Lucky
Eating
Know
" Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate. "
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Down
Football
Age
" I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper. "
Omari Hardwick
Who
Man
Loving
" I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot. "
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Lot
Really
Read
" I was definitely a Daddy's boy. "
Omari Hardwick
Boy
Definitely
Daddy
" Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops. "
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Amazing
Amazing People
Life
" 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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Know
You
Doing
" I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years. "
Omari Hardwick
Lived
Started
New York
" I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever. "
Omari Hardwick
Pan
Whatever
Class
" To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It's the greatest thing you can ever pull off. "
Omari Hardwick
Family
You
Own
" I grew up in a two-parent household. We all played sports, all sports, which cost a lot of money. My pops was an attorney; he went to College of the Holy Cross with Clarence Thomas. My mom worked a bit, then gradually came home and took care of us full time. "
Omari Hardwick
Mom
Sports
College
" I use Aveeno cleansers and moisturizers. "
Omari Hardwick
Use
" Craft is everything. "
Omari Hardwick
Everything
Craft
" What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view. "
Omari Hardwick
Others
Opportunity
Work
" I always go into a character thinking, 'If it scares me, I can do it.' "
Omari Hardwick
Thinking
Always
I Can
" Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one. "
Omari Hardwick
Intelligent
Well
Relationship
" The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be. "
Omari Hardwick
Feel
Way
Love
" I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up. "
Omari Hardwick
Creating
Writing
People
" I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon. "
Omari Hardwick
Marathon
Race
Say
" You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it. "
Omari Hardwick
Know
You
Find
" So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me. "
Omari Hardwick
Been
Me
Who
" 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. "
Omari Hardwick
Someone
Back
Divorce
" I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well. "
Omari Hardwick
Want
Think
You
" I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day. "
Omari Hardwick
Playing
Touch
Will
" When I think about the person who's been most in my ear, it's Joe Dumars. "
Omari Hardwick
Ear
Think
Been
" It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community. "
Omari Hardwick
Community
Small
Society
" I always had an interest in telling stories. "
Omari Hardwick
Had
Telling
Always
" Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders. "
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Work
Opportunity
Rare
" I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama. "
Omari Hardwick
Sports
School
Poetry