American - Actor | April 6, 1937 -
My mother's side of the family, they're from Montserrat in the Leeward Islands.
Billy Dee Williams
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Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.
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Jazz is very much a part of my life. I work with the Thelonious Monk Institute and do the artwork for their program every year.
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Oh, I paint all the time.
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I tend to approach characters not based on ethnicity but on some unique individual qualities, and I've set my whole life that way. I don't want any sort of limitations imposed on my work. If you truly want to be a creative person, you can't limit yourself.
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I don't want to find myself ever locked into what people think I should think or do. In my art, and acting, I have a universal vision of things, an international vision. Bigger and broader and beyond. 'Bigger than life' is always on my mind.
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I love the Mexican muralists - like Rivera, Orozco - and the music of Walter Benton. They gave you a sense that reality was much more than life.
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I loved Marlon Brando: my favorite actor.
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Sometimes a true original doesn't need to change a thing.
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No matter where I go, in this country or outside of this country, there are young people, and I'm always surprised that young people know about me and Colt 45.
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It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.
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I think a lot of black filmmakers have done very well.
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