Latest Mike Colter Quotes from Interviews

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• As long as I didn't have to put on the tiara and the chains and the big yellow shirt for the whole series, I was up for anything.

  Mike Colter

  Long, Shirts

  Source: www.empireonline.com

• I haven't had ice-cream in a year, although I did have a slice of pizza. People don't realise that when you're shooting a movie it's only three months to get in shape for.

  Mike Colter

  People, Realising

  Source: www.empireonline.com

• Luke Cage is using his open hand instead of a closed fist. It's a little disrespectful but it's very effective. Some people call it a pimp slap, we call it smack-fu. He's doing you a favour by hitting you with an open hand. It hurts, it renders you unconscious but you live.

  Mike Colter

  Hurt, People, Pimp

  Source: www.empireonline.com

• That's how it works in Westerns: the hero is minding his own business and trying to make a living, but he does something, the villain finds out about it and they have to have a showdown. So it's kind of a Western set to hip hop music.

  Mike Colter

  Hero, Hip Hop, Trying

  Source: www.empireonline.com

• The primary thing that I enjoy about Luke Cage is that he has a morality about him but it's conflicted. He's never sure what the right move is, but he at least contemplates it. He's a not a rash character. It's that thoughtfulness that I really identify with.

  Mike Colter

  Moving, Character, Morality

  Source: www.empireonline.com

• When you take the job, you never think about how many days you're going to take bullets. Sometimes you go on set and you're thinking, "Ah, a day when I don't have to get shot. This is going to be a nice day."

  Mike Colter

  Nice, Thinking, Sometimes

  Source: www.empireonline.com

• I like to take a break, but at the same time, I think most actors are not very good at sitting around doing nothing because we like to work.

  Mike Colter

  Thinking, Break, Very Good

  Source: www.elle.com

• I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't have interests, it's just that I don't have the time.

  Mike Colter

  Embarrassed, Interest

  Source: www.elle.com

• Part of acting is always just being available emotionally and open to people.

  Mike Colter

  People, Acting

  Source: www.elle.com

• I respond to powerful women. I'm not intimidated by that, I like that, it's not something I shy away from, so I don't want women who are looking for me to take care of them. To me, that's a turn-off. I respond to strong, powerful, independent women.

  Mike Colter

  Strong, Powerful, Independent

  Source: www.elle.com

• I've learned over the years, when someone is complaining or wants to vent and has something they want to tell you, they don't necessarily want you to fix it.

  Mike Colter

  Complaining

  Source: www.elle.com

• I respond to women who have their stuff together, who are in charge, who don't need men to do things for them. I want a woman to have her own thing.

  Mike Colter

  Men, Together

  Source: www.elle.com

• Tequila is my drink. It is my favorite alcohol, my favorite liquor because, you know, it's a stimulant and not a depressant. If I go to a party and everyone's been drinking and I don't have time to really "catch up" - I'm not trying to get drunk but I want to feel good - I drink tequila.

  Mike Colter

  Party, Drinking, Drunk

  Source: www.elle.com

• Sometimes when you do things right, there's no results.

  Mike Colter

  Sometimes, Results

  Source: collider.com

• We're dealing with that question now, in the media. How does the judicial system work? There's never going to be a clear-cut answer, but it's a conversation and a conflict in the community. It's not a white thing or a black thing. It's a society thing and a culture thing, and we've gotta figure it out.

  Mike Colter

  Cutting, Media, White

  Source: collider.com

• Law enforcement has always had informants and people they've had to deal with, who walk a certain line. They're choosing between the lesser of two evils. They're befriend one person to gain access to another person, who's a bigger fish.

  Mike Colter

  Law, Two, People

  Source: collider.com

• A lot of times in life, women want to talk, but men don't want to listen, and if they do want to listen, they turn it back to themselves.

  Mike Colter

  Men, Want, Turns

  Source: collider.com

• Dialogue is not always the best way to show emotion, to show your thought process, or to reveal yourself, as a character.

  Mike Colter

  Character, Way, Emotion

  Source: collider.com

• As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

  Mike Colter

  Actors

  Source: collider.com

• If things are not working out, they just stop going forward.

  Mike Colter

  Work Out, Ifs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Auditions are great, and you definitely want to continue to make progress as an actor, you want to continue to see some advancement in your career. But when you get out there, you don't realize how many auditions you have to go on before you actually get work.

  Mike Colter

  Careers, Progress, Advancement

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• When you're casting, you get a page or two - just enough to do the scene. Now that you're in the world, you get the whole script.

  Mike Colter

  Two, World, Pages

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams and she never really got a chance to do that. I feel like I'm following her dream in a way. She's proud of me for doing what I wanted to do, but at the same time, I'm kind of taking up where she left off.

  Mike Colter

  Mother, Dream, Proud

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I met some people in college and I kept cracking away until someone pointed me in the right direction.

  Mike Colter

  College, People, Mets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Some people get divorced, they leave the person for a couple of years, then they remarry. Relationships are very, very strange.

  Mike Colter

  Couple, Years, People

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com