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I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.

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

I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

Chadwick Boseman

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

Chadwick Boseman

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

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

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

I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.

Chadwick Boseman

We live in a world where people can ridicule you at the push of the button. They can question you at the push of a button.

Chadwick Boseman

I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, 'Do not seek approval from the audience.' People don't realize that. You can't do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.

Chadwick Boseman

I played Little League baseball, but I also played basketball. Basketball was my primary sport. When you play basketball seriously, a lot of times, through the summer season, you continue playing. So that replaced me playing baseball.

Chadwick Boseman

Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don't tear the muscles from the bones.

Chadwick Boseman

Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.

Chadwick Boseman

There are some stories I want to tell that I think it'd be cool to see an African-American dude do.

Chadwick Boseman

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

Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.

Chadwick Boseman

I got scars from every film I've done, every TV show.

Chadwick Boseman

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.

Chadwick Boseman

Actors can have a fair amount of hate for each other, so when another actor says, 'You did your thing,' or 'That was inspiring,' you can't really ask for more than that.

Chadwick Boseman

Once you start getting big roles as an actor, everything pays. So what are you making decisions on? It's about the director or the script or whatever. But before you reach that point, you're taking jobs with, say, a theater company, in spite of the fact that it's not paying your bills.

Chadwick Boseman

One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, 'Don't judge the character.'

Chadwick Boseman

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

I don't have a smart house. My house is very dumb.

Chadwick Boseman

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

I know that baseball players have certain rituals or habits that they develop, because sometimes it becomes somewhat superstitious if they get on a streak and want to do the same thing over and over again.

Chadwick Boseman

I would go through these cycles of being really, really focused on work, and not being around anyone, to being around everyone. And that could be distracting. It was nothing or everything.

Chadwick Boseman

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

I can't even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.

Chadwick Boseman

When I got out of school, I didn't really understand the differences in the different aspects of the business. For example, doing a play - where does that take you versus, you know, concentrating on independent films? You might have one thing in your head, but the things you're doing don't really lead down the right road, necessarily.

Chadwick Boseman

I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else's story and the hero in your own, and I think very often, African-American characters are either one thing or the other. You shouldn't have to be perfectly good or perfectly bad. You don't even have to be magical.

Chadwick Boseman

Nobody has to give me permission to write.

Chadwick Boseman

I'm not afraid to work.

Chadwick Boseman

I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.

Chadwick Boseman

People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any more real people.' I don't agree with that.

Chadwick Boseman

People don't want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it's different.

Chadwick Boseman

They should probably have a James Brown aerobic tape. You would lose a lot of weight.

Chadwick Boseman