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" I see a project, and I say I want to audition for it, and people let me audition for it. There's a lot to be grateful for. "
Nelsan Ellis
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" My mom's side, they're southern Baptist Christian. "
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" It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students. "
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" I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan. "
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" Whenever you have a character in which one of his defining qualities is his sexuality, it's always challenging, because you don't want to bring in someone who's going to play that in a phony way. "
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" At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie. "
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" When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued. "
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" I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else. "
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