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" I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles. "

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Divorce

" Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders. "

" 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. "

" You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor. "

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" If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters. "

" Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career. "

" I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet. "

Omari Hardwick

Poet

Backpack

" 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. "

" The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be. "

" 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

Family

" Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one. "

" I'm really nerdy, and I read a lot. "

" Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car. "

" When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses. "

" 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. "

" Craft is everything. "

Omari Hardwick

Everything

Craft

" I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well. "

" I think what's most important is family. "

" I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day. "

Omari Hardwick

Good

I Think

" I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king. "

" I was a 200-pound defensive back on Saturday, but after the season, I was performing 'Lysistrata' or 'Fences.' "

" I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors. "

" I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it. "

" So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me. "

Omari Hardwick

Been

Who

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Women are so necessary for us in terms of support. "

Omari Hardwick

Women

Necessary

" I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up. "

" 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

" I know that Donald Trump is a smart man. "