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"You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."
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"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."
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"I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father."
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"I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked."
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"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good."
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"When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too."
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"I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it."
People
"That's because I didn't have to work with Madea. I only had to work with Madea once, and that was at the barbecue and I didn't have to get close to her."
Work
"You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy."
Mother
"I loved running. I can catch everything in the outfield. I could throw people out from the fence."
People
"Well, you can't compete with a six foot five man in a wig."
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"Baseball player. Yeah, that was my dream before acting, or alongside acting."
Dream
"I hosted Soul train but I listen to everything."
Soul
"It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak."
Life
"Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter."
Day
"Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all I'm trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to."
People
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