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" I trained at Juilliard so that I could do all kinds of genres, so that's what I'm trained to do. "
Wendell Pierce
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" One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city. "
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City
" When a sports team is doing well in a city that's going through tough times like New Orleans, like Detroit, it bolsters this real sentiment of 'we can get through this.' And when you have that sentiment, it becomes more than feelings: It's transported into action. "
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" New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture. "
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" I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it. "
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" I would love to see a real story about Fred Hampton. "
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" Coming out of school, sometimes people can be theater snobs. I only wanted to do theater, highbrow stuff. But what I learned very quickly is there can be good material in every genre. "
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School
People
Only
" My father was so against me becoming an actor. "
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Against
Actor
" In our house, my dad had a chair. It was a Barcalounger, big and comfortable. If we missed him or wanted comfort when he wasn't home, we'd just climb into the chair and let it envelop us. "
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Climb
Chair
House
" And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on. "
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Journey
Who
Understanding
" In 1974, when the city of Boston was desegregating its schools, I watched the news with my dad and saw the police escorts in riot gear, the protesters screaming at the buses, small frightened faces in their windows. "
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News
Small
Police
" I have so much love for art. "
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Art
Love
Much
" A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play. "
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Cats
Musicians
" I consider myself a journeyman actor, and I pride myself and look forward to keeping my career choices as diverse as possible because it challenges me as an actor. "
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Choices
Challenges
Myself
" The world, post-Katrina, was a hard time for my city. The hardest time. For people who didn't live through it, no words can fully express the pain, the rage, the grief, and the futility we New Orleanians felt. For the people who did, words seemed like a feeble protest against a relentless night without end. "
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Grief
Live
Night
" I just know that 'Treme' broke ground when it comes to music and film on television. "
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Know
" Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid. "
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Self
True
True Self
" At Julliard we had some voice classes. It was really just so you could carry a tune. It always just helps with your speaking voice also, when you connect your diaphragm and your breath. "
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Always
Voice
Breath
" Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture. "
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Death
Love
People
" Great art, the more specific you are, the more universal it becomes, and that's the thing that I loved about 'The Wire.' "
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Universal
Art
More
" I tell people all the time: get some training and become a student of your craft. "
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Time
Training
Craft
" I'm a multitasker, and I kind of like it that way. "
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Like
Way
" I would love to do an anthology show based on the character of Jesse B. Semple that Langston Hughes wrote about. He's sort of a Forrest Gump character in the midst of 20th century Harlem. "
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Love
Harlem
" What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go. "
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Hope
Community
Go
" The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will. "
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Sports
Loyalty
Memories
" One of the great things my grandparents and grandparents taught me was, there are those who don't have your best interests at heart. "
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Heart
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Best
" My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to confront the insidiousness of racism head on, no matter what the ramification, so it will not fester. Defeat it and get past it. That was The Talk. Nothing scared me after that. "
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Racism
Past
" I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one. "
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Just
Two
Guy
" The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity - a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums. "
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You
Career
Diversity
" Ultimately, I would love to do 'The Emperor of Ocean Park' by Stephen Carter. "
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Love
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" Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything. "
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