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" My idea of horses is from when I grew up on a farm. They were big, and they were dumb. "
Nelsan Ellis
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Farm
Dumb
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" I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else. "
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" You have to learn to not hate who you have to live with. "
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Learn
" When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.' "
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Said
Serious
" It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students. "
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Discipline
Education
Teachers
" I think, in this country, anybody can do whatever they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else or violating the laws of society. "
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Want
Think
Society
" 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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Acting
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" I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot. "
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Bullied
Poetry
" I see a project, and I say I want to audition for it, and people let me audition for it. There's a lot to be grateful for. "
Nelsan Ellis
People
Grateful
Be Grateful
" Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities. "
Nelsan Ellis
Until
Happens
Domestic
" If you want to get married to a man, then get married to a man. If two women want to get married, they should get married. It's not hurting me. "
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Me
Want
Man
" 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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Time
First Time
Discipline
" 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. "
Nelsan Ellis
Devil
Character
Play
" Alan Ball, he's good at challenging his actors, I'll say that. "
Nelsan Ellis
He
Challenging
Ball
" But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you. "
Nelsan Ellis
Me
Military
Own
" My mom's side, they're southern Baptist Christian. "
Nelsan Ellis
Baptist
Christian
Mom
" I had no intention of being an actor. "
Nelsan Ellis
Intention
Actor
Being
" I'd always dabbled in acting. "
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Always
Acting
" Being different gives the world color. "
Nelsan Ellis
World
Color
Being Different
" Being different makes you beautiful. "
Nelsan Ellis
Being Different
Beautiful
Being
" I don't look anything like my mother, except when I'm Lafayette. I look like my father. "
Nelsan Ellis
Anything
Like
Look
" 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. "
Nelsan Ellis
Free
Christian
Gay
" You go back to my town, it's like going back to the 1960s... just not a great place to grow up. "
Nelsan Ellis
You
Place
Grow Up
" 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. "
Nelsan Ellis
School
Arts
Chicago
" I am a vampire/werewolf and sci-fi fanatic. God is so good! I get to play in a series that has all that! "
Nelsan Ellis
Fanatic
Get
Good
" There are homophobic people in my family. They're deeply religious. "
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Deeply
Family
People
" I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything. "
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Quiet
Anything
Just
" Everybody kept saying, 'I just don't know how to sell you.' I'm odd. I don't think you can put a finger on me. "
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You
Me
Know
" Let gay people get married. "
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Get Married
Married
People
" With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get. "
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You
Blood
Expect