American - Actor | July 15, 1986 -
I had taken an acting class at Berkeley - I was on the track team, and a friend of mine on the team said, 'You should take an acting class. It's just like recess.' So I viewed it as a simple credit.
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
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I kind of assumed all of Australia was like the Gold Coast - so I was telling people Australians just work out and go to the beach. Like, Australia has it figured out! But then I went to Sydney, and it was nothing like the Gold Coast - but I still loved it.
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I have a lot of fun playing quote unquote villains because I think the bad guys get to have more fun, right?
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I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.
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I wanted to be an architect, and I ended up at my job in San Francisco, and if you would have asked me then, that was one of the greatest jobs that had happened to me in terms of my career.
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When I think about it, I was working very hard the summer before I applied to graduate school. I was going to the library every day in the summer. I read a play a day for about three months. I was taking audition classes, and I was reciting lines to myself and acting as my own scene partner. But I was having fun.
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I think that everybody likes the bad guy.
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For the things that I've been involved in, most of it has really been - it's been a mixture of action and then drama.
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My performance, I believe, is about my duty to the script, and my duty to the story that we're trying to tell, and I try to do that in a way that is true, in a way that's going to hold up the script, and that's going to be fun for the viewers to watch.
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I'm not very excitable as a person. What I say is, I'm always chillin', I'm always chillin'.
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I'm a thinker.
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'Baywatch' was terrifying. I could feel the financial stakes, you know?
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