Chadwick Boseman famous quotes

06-17-2025

You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily. When you're young, you don't want to hear that. You think you can do everything, be all things.
-- Chadwick Boseman

#Thinking #Want #Might
There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling.
-- Chadwick Boseman

#Stressful #Stomach #Growling
I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.
-- Chadwick Boseman

#Order #Twenties #Might
I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.
-- Chadwick Boseman

#Thinking #People #Loving You
The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you're not dead!
-- Chadwick Boseman

#Being Thankful #Advice #Getting Older
I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.
-- Chadwick Boseman

#People #Giving #Waiting
When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe,
-- Chadwick Boseman

#Golden #Action #Figures
I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.
-- Chadwick Boseman

#Black #Culture #Research
I would love to play Jimi Hendrix.
-- Chadwick Boseman

#Play #Hendrix
Guys are natural problem solvers - they like to have strategies.
-- Chadwick Boseman

#Guy #Problem #Strategy
Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.
-- Chadwick Boseman

#Fire #Views #Punishment
In television you don't have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it's even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.
-- Chadwick Boseman

#Dream #Enough Time #Roles
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.
-- Chadwick Boseman

#New York #Writing #Artist
I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.
-- Chadwick Boseman

#Believe #Writing #Tired
You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.
-- Chadwick Boseman

#Different #Way #Pressure

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