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" I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional. "
Wentworth Miller
Little
Professional
Time
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" My definition of cool is finding your own definition of cool and not necessarily taking your lead from what other people tell you or from what you might read from magazines or see on TV. "
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" I am a workaholic, have always been. "
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" Everyone has their challenges. "
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" Growing up, I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test, and there were a thousand ways to fail, a thousand ways to betray yourself, to not live up to someone else's standards of what was accepted, of what was normal. "
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" This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film. "
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" A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support. "
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" You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for. "
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" It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult. "
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" There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of. "
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" Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible. "
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" You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people. "
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" I certainly learned how to break down a text at Princeton, which helps me break down a script - or at least that's the line I feed my parents when they start wondering where all that good money went. "
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" I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine. "
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" When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street. "
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" I'm a very competitive person, but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be, and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else, then so be it. But I don't go around comparing and contrasting myself with other actors if I can help it. It's also, I think, the key to my success. "
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" My first gig in the business was a guest star on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' so I'm neck deep in sci-fi. It's been a very good genre to me. "
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" The mail amazes me. I sometimes get these letters that are ten pages, and handwritten, from women pouring their hearts out and, for security reasons, I can only respond with a headshot and 'Dear so and so, be good. WM.' It never feels like enough. "
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Women
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" I think there's something about evil that is thoughtless and relentless and incredibly frightening because it can't be reckoned with, reasoned with or stopped. "
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" I've never tried writing at a coffeehouse. I just know instinctively it's not for me. "
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" A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs. "
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" I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too. "
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" I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page. "
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" I surrender the idea of having some kind of control over the arc of my career a lot of the time because you never know what tomorrow's going to bring. "
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" I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people. "
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" Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself. "
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" I broke my nose in gym when a ball hit me. I took a girl to her debutante ball the next week wearing a tux and a big, honking bandage. Not the romantic night she had in mind. "
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" There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate. "
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" There's nothing the Internet can tell me about myself that I don't already know. The rest is foolishness and people killing time. "
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