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" I don't make a big deal out of playing football at UGA to people who have interviewed me. "
Omari Hardwick
Big
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Football
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" 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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" Craft is everything. "
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Craft
" If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness. "
Omari Hardwick
Screaming
Reality Shows
Reality
" I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time. "
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" I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years. "
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" 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
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" 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. "
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" I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot. "
Omari Hardwick
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Read
" 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
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Find
" I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister. "
Omari Hardwick
Three
Like
Georgia
" 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. "
Omari Hardwick
You
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" I think what's most important is family. "
Omari Hardwick
I Think
Most
Think
" Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful. "
Omari Hardwick
Ourselves
Us
Powerful
" You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically. "
Omari Hardwick
Romantic
Beautiful
Best
" 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
" 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
Like
Create
" So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me. "
Omari Hardwick
Been
Me
Who
" That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete. "
Omari Hardwick
Athlete
Me
Being
" That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else. "
Omari Hardwick
People
Sexy
Me
" 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
" Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops. "
Omari Hardwick
Amazing
Amazing People
Life
" A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all. "
Omari Hardwick
Things
Cool
Flaws
" 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 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
" Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating. "
Omari Hardwick
Think
Reaction
Look
" 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
" 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'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception.' "
Omari Hardwick
Always
Like
Well
" Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders. "
Omari Hardwick
Work
Opportunity
Rare
" 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