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" When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses. "

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" That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else. "

Omari Hardwick

People

Sexy

" Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating. "

" What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view. "

" Sometimes my schedule doesn't allow time to go to the hotel after I get off the plane, so I bring my Freebird boots or my old school Adidas shell-toes to throw on after I land. "

" Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate. "

" I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up. "

" I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable. "

" You can't look at the dollar and say, 'I'm not what I dreamed of being unless I do this type of movie and it's a blockbuster that gives me this amount of dollars.' That's not good. "

" Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & Flow' and lived in both of these outfits. It was one of the best experiences of my professional life. "

" If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind. "

" I was definitely a Daddy's boy. "

" Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south. "

" That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete. "

Omari Hardwick

Athlete

Being

" I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king. "

" I think what's most important is family. "

" I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway. "

" Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car. "

" I tend to want to put my fingers over my ears and not hear all of that, not hear that there are so many fans. "

" I always had an interest in telling stories. "

" I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon. "

" I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well. "

" I always go into a character thinking, 'If it scares me, I can do it.' "

" I think actors make for very good directors, and I would like to do that one day. "

Omari Hardwick

Good

I Think

" I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting. "

" Craft is everything. "

Omari Hardwick

Everything

Craft

" I would say that the woman's ability to multi-task and to be maternal in instinct, it fosters a different approach to the character that makes sense as an actor. "

" The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors. "

" I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper. "

" I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day. "

" I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist. "