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" My mom's side, they're southern Baptist Christian. "
Nelsan Ellis
Baptist
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" There are homophobic people in my family. They're deeply religious. "
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" I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug. "
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" It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students. "
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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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" Although I can be a leading man, you wouldn't look at me and go, 'He's a leading man.' "
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" Being different makes you beautiful. "
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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 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. "
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" When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react. "
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" 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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" Fiona Shaw is a goddess to me. "
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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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" At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie. "
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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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" I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything. "
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" I can't approach a character with judgment. "
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" You have to be a tough gay person in the South. "
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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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" I don't look anything like my mother, except when I'm Lafayette. I look like my father. "
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" 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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" 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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" But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you. "
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" I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene. "
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" Being different gives the world color. "
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" You go back to my town, it's like going back to the 1960s... just not a great place to grow up. "
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" My years at Thornridge probably changed the course of my life. "
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