American - Actor | December 7, 1965 -
I think survival, with agency intact, is heroic for anyone or anything.
Jeffrey Wright
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I started acting when I was at Amherst my junior year, and my lacrosse career kind of started to flop sideways after that.
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I played football and lacrosse in high school. They wanted me to play football at Amherst, which I did not do because my schedule was full enough as it was. But over the course of my student days, I played pretty much every sport out there.
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I find that the work I do as an actor that's most challenging commands an athleticism or, certainly, a physicality. And also a rigor, a physical rigor.
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For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes.
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When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist.
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Some of my earliest heroes were congresswomen like Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan.
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I was a political science major in college because that's where my head was.
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Collaboration is a multilane highway, going in all directions. If there isn't reciprocity, it fails, and it's unsatisfying.
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Our great nation put a man on the moon, but it can't train its cops to distinguish between an ordinary brown-skinned brother and a criminal.
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There are too many guns.
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We have more guns in our country than citizens. I think we could with maybe 100 million fewer guns. And I think we'd be OK.
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