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"Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message."
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"I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to."
"A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production."
"I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen."
"Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain."
"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."
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"As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything."
"I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar."
"The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists."
"You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that's what me and my wife have. We don't need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it's important to educate the kids with that."
"Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior."
"I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life."
"Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you."
"I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace."
"Yet, that's what studios do. If one thing works, they'll keep doing it till it runs its course and people aren't interested anymore."
"The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single."
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