Wesley Snipes Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a lot of the cockroaches started spinning. I swept them out the door. And sometimes you just have to throw things out because they carry a certain energy.”
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“I actually take images of things and put them up around the wall and in a room. I set a room aside. It might be colors, it might be animals, or energy and words. And I'll just leave it there, so it begins to work on my subconscious when I think about the character. Which gives me some latitude to be really flexible and spontaneous but within the context of the character and the world of the character without having to think about it. Or I'll look at something or read something and let it work on my subconscious mind.”
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“I don't see myself as extremely handsome. I just figure I can charm you into liking me.”
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“Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.”
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“I come out of repertory theatre so I've been working under pressure my whole career.”
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“There's a lot of great stuff on television and that's very appealing to actors who want to work, who do good quality and high quality work. But you're always concerned that the time demands on television will interrupt or interfere with your film work.”
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“In film you have the script months ahead of time often, for a good film, but in television it seems like you might not get the script until a week or two weeks before you've got to film it. It's a little weird, but also quite challenging. It reminds me of repertory theatre.”
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“I watch a lot of different films. A lot of different performances and I find a lot of little things from the films or things that actors do or people in real life who have behaviors or idiosyncrasies that I like or find interesting and I try to remember that. And then I'll do a prayer. I'll do a prayer to ask the character or the spirit of the character to come and visit me. And let's work together.”
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“I think the key that differentiates the good actors from the mediocre ones that are still trying to come up, is that the good ones know how to listen. It's like being in a jazz band. They know how to listen to what the other musicians are playing. And where to come in and where to sit out. That's my approach to being in an ensemble cast and working with any kind of actors in a scene.”
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“I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.”
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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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“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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“Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.”
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“You give Frost a message from me. You tell him it's open season on all suckheads.”
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“The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it.”
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“I had faith in the concept and the theory that all Americans are endowed with the right to a fair trial and I would be fairly judged and fairly tried.”
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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 have some cops in my family. I understand the predicament that they're in. Sometimes they go into it just to pay the bills or because they don't have other choices, or sometimes they just want to get the gun.”
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“I'm proud to be an American. I'm proud to be an African American in America. I've had some interesting experiences: some great, some not so great, but I love it here.”
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“I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.”
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“I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.”
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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 think I have kind of a natural magnetism.”
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“I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now - that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys.”
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“I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.”
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“A lot of people now don't know I've been on Broadway.”
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“There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.”
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“I never really planned on making action films. It just kind of happened.”
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“I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.”
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