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Vote:   | A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well. |
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Vote: | And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay. |
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Vote: | And when I first came into this industry, I never wanted to be engulfed by it, because very few people have longevity. |
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Vote: | As a black man, I represent because I pick diverse roles and focus on entertaining. |
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Vote: | At one point, people thought that Eddie Murphy would only reach one sector of the audience, but now everyone sees everything Eddie Murphy does. |
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Vote: | For some actors, you can tell, that scene is in the movie so he can take his clothes off: I don't want to become that actor. |
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Vote: | I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die. |
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Vote: | I can't say that we went through the academy because we weren't being tested and we knew we had a job, but we did set some fires and put them out. |
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Vote: | I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film. |
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Vote: | I don't have to be in charge of every single angle, every single word, should he wear the blue shirt or the red shirt, or the light red shirt? |
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Vote: | I don't like snakes. |
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Vote: | I enjoy what I do, but it's more challenging than people think. |
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Vote: | I felt it was important to convey to people, especially younger people, that everything on the surface is not always what it seems. |
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Vote: | I hate being cold and I hate being wet and around 80% percent of this film I was cold and another 60% I was cold and wet, so it wasn't the best shoot for me. |
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Vote: | I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that. |
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Vote: | I think that we have to hit the mark, and once we hit that, a trend develops in order for a lot of those types of films to be made. |
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Vote: | I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action. |
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Vote: | I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily. |
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Vote: | I want viewers to relate to me on a different level, not just a sexual level. |
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Vote: | I wanted to punctuate some of my thoughts and feelings, but they wanted the PG-13 rating. |
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Vote: | I would like more challenging roles. I definitely would like to something that's more challenging. |
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Vote: | I would never want any of my kids to go into this industry; not until they are old enough to understand and if this is something that they really want to do. |
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Vote: | I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act. |
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Vote: | I'm just happy to be working consistently. |
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Vote: | I'm not going to take my shirt off in every movie. |
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Vote: | I'm the poster boy for perseverance and self-evaluation. |
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Vote: | I've been in a situation where I was after the money. |
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Vote: | It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again. |
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Vote: | It's not always about the money. |
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Vote: | Nah, I'm not a prima donna, but I just don't like being cold and wet. |
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Vote: | Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action. |
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Vote: | Particularly in African American filmmaking, there aren't too many love stories. |
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Vote: | Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story. |
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Vote: | Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing. |
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Vote: | Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work. |
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Vote: | That's attributable to my mother and my father, they're always striving to make me humble, and encouraging me to be myself. |
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Vote: | The studios have been successful marketing action movies with buddy protagonists, but I want to do an action movie that's based around a love story, so the two central characters are male and female, and not necessarily black male and black female, maybe black male and white female. |
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Vote: | The thing about independent films, and you have to be very careful, because there are a gazillion independent films done every year, but then you don't want to be a part of that one that goes straight to video because it hurts your marketability. |
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Vote: | The thing about snakes is that how do you defend yourself against a snake if you don't have a weapon. You can't strangle it. |
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Vote: | There are a lot of people in this business that don't work consistently. |
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Vote: | This film is what it is. It's a campy thriller horror movie where you go and have fun. With these types of films, you can't take it too seriously. They are what they are. |
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Vote: | This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is. |
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Vote: | To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off. |
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Vote: | Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives. |
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Vote: | When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you. |
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Vote: | You can become really pigeon-holed in this industry. |
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Vote: | You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try. |
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Vote: | You have to be insane to direct. |
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Vote: | You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free. |