As an actor, the flaws are the things that are juicy to play. If the character is perfect, it can be a little boring. Cress Williams Read Quote
As an actor, the only pressure I have is to just be truthful and to do my best work. Cress Williams Read Quote
I have a history, even going back to my time in college doing plays, of always hurting myself at some point in whatever I’m in. Like, always! And it’s usually my own doing and me being rambunctious and going, ‘Oh, I can do that better,’ or ‘Oh, I can do that quicker,’ and it results in injury. Cress Williams Read Quote
As an actor, so much of life is out of your control, and it’s really not solid. Cress Williams Read Quote
I didn’t really know of ‘Black Lightning’ until I got the script and started to investigate – it wasn’t a hero that I grew up with. So I didn’t know if his powers were natural or if it was the suit, but those things are, for me, very important. I really like the idea that his powers are his – that whether he has the suit or not, he has them. Cress Williams Read Quote
A lot of times, people believe that until you’re a certain-list actor, you say yes to everything; you’re not allowed to say no. But early on, something went off in me, and if something didn’t ring true for a myriad of reasons, I would say no and was fortunate enough to have people around me that were OK with that. Cress Williams Read Quote
My first job was television. I got to where I wanted to go, but through a little bit of a detour. When I first started working in film and television, I hated myself – I didn’t like what I was doing at all. All I could think of was, ‘I’m overacting. Be smaller.’ I started to do that, but that was not fun. I felt confined doing film and TV. Cress Williams Read Quote
When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself. Cress Williams Read Quote
As a kid, you just like anything fanciful that you’re into, but as an adult, I really love that kind of place where the super hero mythos meets life, where it has that human story; that’s what I think I was really drawn to when I started getting into the X-Men. Cress Williams Read Quote
