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" It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students. "
Nelsan Ellis
Discipline
Education
Teachers
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" Fiona Shaw is a goddess to me. "
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" My mom's side, they're southern Baptist Christian. "
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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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" The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well. "
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" Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities. "
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" I'd always dabbled in acting. "
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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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" 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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" Let gay people get married. "
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" Being different gives the world color. "
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" I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and writing. "
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" I was raised by women. "
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" With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get. "
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" I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene. "
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" You have to learn to not hate who you have to live with. "
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" The sci-fi fans in America... they are die-hard. They will follow you to the ends of the Earth. Once they attach themselves to a show and believe in the show and love the characters, they're there forever, and they're unshakeable. "
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" Anna Paquin is marvelous, and she brings so much experience to the table. "
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" When you're in a position that you can comfortably give, you need to pay it forward. "
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" At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie. "
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" Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happened to me. "
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" The beautiful thing about this country is that I can be a Christian and feel free to do so. Or somebody cannot be a Christian and do whatever that entails. Or somebody can be a Christian and still be gay, and I support it. "
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" I don't look anything like my mother, except when I'm Lafayette. I look like my father. "
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" My idea of horses is from when I grew up on a farm. They were big, and they were dumb. "
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" The arts are suffering amongst public schools, but also, minority theater companies are struggling, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression through the arts. "
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" There were not many black students at Juilliard, unfortunately. So when you get there, you become very good friends, in particular, with the other black students. "
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