American - Actor | December 8, 1962 -
In our house, my dad had a chair. It was a Barcalounger, big and comfortable. If we missed him or wanted comfort when he wasn't home, we'd just climb into the chair and let it envelop us.
Wendell Pierce
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My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to confront the insidiousness of racism head on, no matter what the ramification, so it will not fester. Defeat it and get past it. That was The Talk. Nothing scared me after that.
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David Simon is a brilliant writer, brilliant at being able to take what is ordinary and make it extraordinary.
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My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans.
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I have so much love for art.
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I trained at Juilliard so that I could do all kinds of genres, so that's what I'm trained to do.
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I consider myself a journeyman actor, and I pride myself and look forward to keeping my career choices as diverse as possible because it challenges me as an actor.
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I'm a multitasker, and I kind of like it that way.
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Coming out of school, sometimes people can be theater snobs. I only wanted to do theater, highbrow stuff. But what I learned very quickly is there can be good material in every genre.
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One of the great things my grandparents and grandparents taught me was, there are those who don't have your best interests at heart.
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My father was so against me becoming an actor.
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The key, I always thought, to my career would be diversity - a diversity of not only the type of work that you do but the mediums.
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