American - Actor | July 31, 1962 -
I've been trying to keep the private life private. Not being savvy or trained on how to do good interviews like a politician, I thought it was wiser to follow my mother's advice: If you have nothing good to say, don't say anything at all.
Wesley Snipes
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I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.
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We're conditioned in this country to believe that if there's a problem, the black man is usually the culprit.
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I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.
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So don't send me up the river yet.
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There are so few guys who do action and do it well. Even fewer who are African-American. Even fewer who have classical-theater training. So a cat like me coming in, I'm bringing all of that to an action movie.
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I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York.
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Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.
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Certain roles are more challenging than others, but I haven't come across one yet that I can't tackle.
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I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.
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I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.
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I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.
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