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" 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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" Some people look like they're lost causes, but they're not. Even if they're in a messed up situation, the one little thing you do to help can go a long way. "

Keith Stanfield

Long

Look

Lost

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression. "

" I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can. "

" Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting. "

" 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. "

Keith Stanfield

View

See

" For me, life is like an act within itself. Everything I do is an act. Where I'm going is an act. "

Keith Stanfield

Going

" I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere. "

" When I was little, when I was a toddler or something, I would watch 'Jason's Lyrica' lot. "

" Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit. "

Keith Stanfield

Opportunity

Imagination

" Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions. "

" You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don't have a guide by which to channel that energy, then a lot of times, it's futile. "

" We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of Englishmen, and we would sip tea and act like we were rich in front of the family, and they thought it was just hilarious, the level of perception that we had about things that we'd never experienced. "

" 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. "

Keith Stanfield

Work

Cool

" My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I'm writing to his beats. "

" That was like my safe place with great teachers where everyone could let down their guard and not feel judged. As soon as we walk outside, it was like, 'Look at these weird drama club kids.' But we all had our own agreement that we were cool in our own way. "

" I was born in San Bernardino in summer of '91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Victorville. "

Keith Stanfield

Born

Riverside

" I'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family. "

" My two little twin brothers have autism, so I grew up around it and misunderstood it for a long time. "

" I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing. "

" 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. "

" I love 'Watch the Throne,' because Kanye was acting so ratchet. "

" Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know. "

" 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. "

" They say every five years the atoms in your body become a new set of atoms. "

" I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11. "

" I'm in this music duo called Moors. "

Keith Stanfield

Music

Duo

" 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. "

" I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap. "