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Charles S. Dutton

"Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab."

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"Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab."

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A.E. Samaan

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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A.E. Samaan

"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."

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A.E. Samaan

"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."

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A.E. Samaan

"A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills."

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A.E. Samaan

"I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be."

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."

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A.E. Samaan

"I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Doing this part is the highlight of my career. What a way to leave the profession!"

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A.E. Samaan

"I'm an actor who hates dialogue and the present day and reality."

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A.E. Samaan

"For no. 1, it's great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it's great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just - it was just like we were all meant to be there together."

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A.E. Samaan

"I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings."

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Charles S. Dutton
"You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing."

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Charles S. Dutton
"I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money."

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Charles S. Dutton
"I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director."

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Charles S. Dutton
"What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible."

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Charles S. Dutton
"For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you're going to be stuck with it for two years, and if you don't love it it's going to look like that on screen."

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Charles S. Dutton
"Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab."

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Charles S. Dutton
"And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is."

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Charles S. Dutton
"First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds."

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Charles S. Dutton
"The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else."

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Charles S. Dutton
"I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school."

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