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Charles S. Dutton

"I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries."

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Amber Hurdle

"Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke."

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Amber Hurdle

"I hate comedy... Yo...-yo bitch."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway."

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Amber Hurdle

"I never watch comedies they suck if something sucks it sucks there isn't doubt about it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Have a chocolate-covered raisin, he said."They look like rat droppings, said the Chair.The Dean peered at them in the gloom."So that's it, he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'd like to come back because I really miss doing situation comedy."

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Amber Hurdle

"There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that."

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Amber Hurdle

"Uh-oh, I hope he doesn't start rattling off dirty limericks next; she'll probably burn the hotel down."

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Amber Hurdle

"Are you out of your goddamn mind? You think we can take on two hundred soldiers? I know I am an extremely attractive man, J, but I am not Bruce Lee."Who's Bruce Lee?"Who's Bruce Lee? Kenji asks, horrified. "Oh my God. We can't even be friends anymore."Why? Was he a friend of yours?"You know what, he says, "just stop. Just-I can't even talk to you right now."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight."

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

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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
"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
"Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that."

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