"Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script."

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"Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script."

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"There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done."

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"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums."

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"I think it talks about the fact that there are black people in the world who have tremendous amount of talents and have no channel through which they can those talents."

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"I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground."

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"I came into the industry at a time when there weren't a lot of choices to what you could do."

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