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" 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. "
Omari Hardwick
Ghost
Free
Insanity
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" 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. "
Omari Hardwick
Father
Poetry
Names
" I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine. "
Omari Hardwick
You
Girl
Strong
" I don't make a big deal out of playing football at UGA to people who have interviewed me. "
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Big
Deal
Football
" I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house. "
Omari Hardwick
Strong
Cards
Gender
" I always go into a character thinking, 'If it scares me, I can do it.' "
Omari Hardwick
Thinking
Always
I Can
" Craft is everything. "
Omari Hardwick
Everything
Craft
" 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. "
Omari Hardwick
Job
Good
Opportunities
" Acting is the art of being and existing, and not being fake. "
Omari Hardwick
Being
Existing
Acting
" On 'Being Mary Jane,' I learned to embrace sex symbol. "
Omari Hardwick
Embrace
Learned
Sex
" Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders. "
Omari Hardwick
Work
Opportunity
Rare
" I use Aveeno cleansers and moisturizers. "
Omari Hardwick
Use
" You can't look at the dollar and say, 'I'm not what I dreamed of being unless I do this type of movie and it's a blockbuster that gives me this amount of dollars.' That's not good. "
Omari Hardwick
Say
Dollar
Good
" I'm safe where I'm at just being the guy where people go, 'That's a really good actor. What's his name again?' I liked being at that place. "
Omari Hardwick
Good
Actor
Name
" I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king. "
Omari Hardwick
Brilliant
I Think
King
" I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me. "
Omari Hardwick
Think
Character
Blue
" 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
" So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me. "
Omari Hardwick
Been
Me
Who
" 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
" I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.' "
Omari Hardwick
Performing
Season
Saturday
" I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever. "
Omari Hardwick
Pan
Whatever
Class
" 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
Me
Family
" I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more. "
Omari Hardwick
City
Writing
Me
" My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it. "
Omari Hardwick
Book
World
Together
" 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
" I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge. "
Omari Hardwick
Poetry
Trying
Bike
" I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?' "
Omari Hardwick
Thinking
Dumb
I Am
" I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day. "
Omari Hardwick
Good
I Think
Like
" I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2. "
Omari Hardwick
Problem
Cool
Past
" I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the character that makes sense as an actor. "
Omari Hardwick
Woman
Character
Ability
" I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring. "
Omari Hardwick
Off
Kids
Bring