English - Actor | June 2, 1972 -
It was just expected that I would go to college. Both my parents are teachers and they tolerated acting, but I was going to go to a school of quality or bust. Which made my downshifting back to acting afterward a little difficult.
Wentworth Miller
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I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.
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I am a workaholic, have always been.
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A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.
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Everyone has their challenges.
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Four months of preparation and about 12 hours of shooting turned into about 30 seconds of screen time.
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I'm pretty much a couch potato.
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I've been spoiled by this project. I was given the script and went in to read, realizing that this was a powerful story and one that wasn't told very often.
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I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.
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I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick.
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If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.
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My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.
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