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" I'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family. "
Keith Stanfield
Influenced
Big Family
Family
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" Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit. "
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" It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects. "
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Me
Cool
" I'm in this music duo called Moors. "
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Duo
" My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I'm writing to his beats. "
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Makes
Beats
" My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression. "
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Myself
Photography
Focus
" Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting. "
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Doing
Thinking
" Just listening and going back and forth and exchanging ideas with people. It's a beautiful thing. This is what's really important. "
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Listening
People
Beautiful
" I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap. "
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Call
Beat
Rap
" I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing. "
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Baby
Everything
Just
" They say every five years the atoms in your body become a new set of atoms. "
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Your Body
New
They Say
" When I was little, when I was a toddler or something, I would watch 'Jason's Lyrica' lot. "
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Something
Toddler
Watch
" I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can. "
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Been
Myself
Super
" For me, life is like an act within itself. Everything I do is an act. Where I'm going is an act. "
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Going
Me
Like
" I wanted to be as genuine as possible because all those people like Jimmie Lee Jackson - me, Mike Brown, all these people - we're all the same; we're not much different. "
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Genuine
People
Possible
" I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn't have many friends in my age group because all they wanted to do was fight and have riots. "
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School
High School
Friends
" I've been fortunate to get involved with 'Short Term 12.' I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word 'actor' in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition. "
Keith Stanfield
Young
Internet
Someone
" My two little twin brothers have autism, so I grew up around it and misunderstood it for a long time. "
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Time
Long Time
Misunderstood
" I'm from Victorville - it's about an hour-and-a-half away from Los Angeles, up in the desert. They call it Victimville because it's kind of violent. It's a beautiful place, though. It's quiet. "
Keith Stanfield
Beautiful Place
Beautiful
Desert
" Have you ever heard of 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' I would like to play Sidney Poitier's role - I love that role. "
Keith Stanfield
Love
You
Role
" Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions. "
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Your
Honesty
Rap
" I love 'Watch the Throne,' because Kanye was acting so ratchet. "
Keith Stanfield
Throne
Because
Watch
" I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American. "
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American
Doing
Mind
" My biggest strength is I'm courageous, or if I am afraid of something, I do it anyway. I do what I feel. It's nothing personal against anyone, so that courageousness has been very good to me. "
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I Am
Me
Nothing
" I want to be in some Willy Wonka-type weird stuff, a role where I'm an alien. Anything that's new and challenging and real. I like real stuff. "
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Want
Alien
Like
" When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us. "
Keith Stanfield
People
You
Free
" I really like watching myself a lot because it gives me an opportunity to see it from outside the flesh, and when I view it like that, I can be a lot more cynical and see the things that need to be attacked. "
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Me
View
See
" The prison industrial system, things like that are cleverly put in place to attempt to marginalize a certain group of people - and it's not only black, it's replete across the American society. "
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Black
Prison
Society
" I was born in San Bernardino in summer of '91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Victorville. "
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Born
Up
Riverside
" I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere. "
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Actor
Somewhere
Knew
" I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do. "
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Performance
Better
Thought