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" 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!' "

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" Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.' "

Omari Hardwick

Way

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Career

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

" I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting. "

" I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper. "

" I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day. "

" I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time. "

" There were uncles in my life that definitely knew the street life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football. "

" The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors. "

" 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. "

" We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me. "

Omari Hardwick

Father

Family

" 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. "

" Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car. "

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

Omari Hardwick

Ourselves

Powerful

" When I think about the person who's been most in my ear, it's Joe Dumars. "

" I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it. "

" People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.' "

Omari Hardwick

Needs

Create

" I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost. "

" I've definitely had my moments in relationships where I've been able to say yes, I have been heartbroken, my heart has been broken. "

" 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. "

" I always had an interest in telling stories. "

" I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king. "

" 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. "

" I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot. "