I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It helped me to deal with some of the complications of living in the South because I always felt like I belonged, no matter what. Chadwick Boseman Read Quote
I said yes too much. I said yes to certain projects that weren’t for me. It was somebody else’s vision and somebody else’s dream and somebody else’s artistic endeavor, but it didn’t necessarily fit in my grand scheme. Chadwick Boseman Read Quote
Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they’re not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier. Chadwick Boseman Read Quote
The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that will be impactful, for the most part, to my people – to black people. Chadwick Boseman Read Quote
When you make movies, it’s such an important period of time, when you look back at each one of them. You want to be able to say that you did something that was a challenge and that changed you. Chadwick Boseman Read Quote
It was a big thing for me to read black writers. ‘Fences,’ by August Wilson. James Baldwin’s ‘Amen Corner.’ ‘The Fire Next Time.’ ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X,’ of course. Chadwick Boseman Read Quote
Even after I became involved in theater and involved in TV and film, I had this sort of idea that Hollywood was off limits. There was something about L.A., the mystique of it and fear of it. Chadwick Boseman Read Quote
I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer. Chadwick Boseman Read Quote
When you play characters, you shouldn’t just be putting on their characteristics – you should be finding it inside yourself. Chadwick Boseman Read Quote
You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure. Chadwick Boseman Read Quote
