Lance Reddick Quotes

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• You either get better, or you don't progress.

  Lance Reddick

  Get Better, Progress

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm an artist at heart.

  Lance Reddick

  Heart, Artist

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

  Lance Reddick

  Mean, Different, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was working on The Wire with the other actors, scene after scene after scene, I felt like we were singing together. We were dancing together. I'm like, "This is the best ensemble I've ever worked with. I'm working with these cats? Holy mackerel, this is heaven."

  Lance Reddick

  Cat, Dancing, Heaven

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

  Lance Reddick

  Ifs

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2008.

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• As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.

  Lance Reddick

  Character, Opportunity, Color

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

  Lance Reddick

  Community, African American, Entertainment

  "Lance Reddick: Life beyond The Wire" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. June 07, 2010.

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• Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.

  Lance Reddick

  Character, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

  Lance Reddick

  Historical, Black, Wire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

  Lance Reddick

  Growing Up, Would Be, Actors

  "'Wire' and 'Fringe' star makes music, too". Interview with John Carucci, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 10, 2011.

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• 'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

  Lance Reddick

  Real, Organization, Wire

  "Masters of SciFi – Lance Reddick Discusses Playing Darth Vader on 'Lost' and Captain Kirk on 'Fringe'". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. September 2008.

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• Sometimes you have to say, "No. This is my space." If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

  Lance Reddick

  Sometimes, My Space

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

  Lance Reddick

  Stress, People, Dynamics

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

  Lance Reddick

  Drama, School, Character

  Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. November 3, 2008.

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• I’m interested not just in projects that I’ll be starring in, but producing film and TV that’s really quality and great for adults; and when I say great for adults, it doesn’t mean without humor, because I’m also interested in doing comedy.

  Lance Reddick

  Mean, Quality, Adults

  "Lance Reddick & Steve Adams Talk To S&A About Newly-Formed Christai Productions". Interview with Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I started to realize, a lot of times if you go into your memory, your sense memory, you know more than you think you do, from having watched and listened.

  Lance Reddick

  Memories, Thinking, Realizing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

  Lance Reddick

  Art, Journalism, Art Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

  Lance Reddick

  Friendly, Quality, Becoming

  "Lance Reddick & Steve Adams Talk To S&A About Newly-Formed Christai Productions" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.

  Lance Reddick

  Want, Victim, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I didn't really flatline much. When I did The Wire, that's when I thought all the doors would open, but that's when things flatlined. I had a really hard time just getting seen for film, which was the next step.

  Lance Reddick

  Hard Times, Wire, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

  Lance Reddick

  Studying Music, Grew Up, Conservatory

  "'Wire' and 'Fringe' star makes music, too". Interview with John Carucci, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 10, 2011.

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• Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

  Lance Reddick

  Auditions, Instinct, Notes

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2008.

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• I started acting, almost on a whim to help my music career.

  Lance Reddick

  Careers, Acting, Helping

  "'Wire' and 'Fringe' star makes music, too". Interview with John Carucci, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 10, 2011.

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• I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

  Lance Reddick

  Jobs, Stuff, Journalism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

  Lance Reddick

  Stars, Artist, Rocks

  "'Wire' and 'Fringe' star makes music, too". Interview with John Carucci, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 10, 2011.

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