American - Actor | July 28, 1984 -
I've gotten rejected hundreds of times.
John David Washington
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Football is the ultimate team sport. You're dependent on 10 other people on the field to have success on a particular play to get to the common goal, which is the win. On a set, we need everybody doing their job and pulling their weight.
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In college, I had an alias: I was Johnny.
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My mother is very positive and encouraging and nurturing, as a mother should be. She's my auditioning partner. She says when it's not good enough; she says when I'm ready.
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As my father started ascending in the business, people around me started to treat me different. Our lives changed. So that anxiety, that sort of resentment, I just funneled it through football.
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They were very supportive parents in all my endeavors. They have very different approaches on how they give advice.
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I got a lot of whoopings back in the day. I was a very curious kid.
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I've been reluctant in doing press stuff - even my Instagram isn't properly managed; I manage it myself. It's kind of by design. I knew that would be what people see first.
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Every time I was off school, I was in Carolina with my cousins. So it was a big influence on me. I actually experienced straight-up racism out there, too.
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I got a scholarship, so I was getting my independence and not paying for school. And then here comes the NFL. 'Now you got an opportunity to get drafted? Guess we'll do that.' I did, all right.
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There's men and women out there protecting and serving, doing it the right way, that aren't talked about.
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A Ryan Coogler film? I'm there for it.
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