Wendell Pierce Quotes

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• Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.

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  Art, Community, Individual

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• Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. Its how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

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  Disappointment, Love Life, People

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• And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

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  Art, Journey, People

  "Exclusive: Wendell Pierce Discusses His Controversial Role in ‘Four’ (LAFF Premiere Today)". Interview with Jasmin Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. Junuary 15, 2012.

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• I always wanted to be a journeyman actor. I wanted to be able to do comedy and drama, classical and contemporary. I like to do film and theater. And I pride myself on that diversity of being a journeyman actor.

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  Drama, Pride, Diversity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People forget that art is not just a piece of entertainment. It is the place where we collectively declare our values and then act on them. That's one of the most powerful things we have as a community: our culture and our art. And it's the intersection between life and how people deal with life. It's the most important thing we do.

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  Art, Powerful, People

  "The Wire's Wendell Pierce on art, New Orleans, and his crush on Janet Jackson". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2015.

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• Your actions are not in a vacuum. They impact other people. It may be in a way that's less obvious than in mainstream movies, but it comes to an understanding of who those people are. It also leaves it open to interpretation. And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.

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  Art, Journey, Impact

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.

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  Dream, Heart, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's no greater honor, as an actor, to be a part of a project that changes lives, and awakens and enlightens and entertains.

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  Life Changing, Honor, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. Just to answer the question why does not say I'm validating behavior. I'm just saying, if we're going to be a student of human behavior, be a true student.

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  Mad, Trying, Abhorrent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.

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  Country, People, Community

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Culture is the intersection between people and dealing with the journey of life itself. How to deal with life, how a people deals with life is literally manifested in its culture, in its food, in its music, in its art, in the way you dance, the way you communicate.

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  Art, Journey, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

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  Art, Community, Gone

  "Wendell Pierce Goes to Market". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2012.

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• We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.

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  Mad, Trying, Abhorrent

  "Exclusive: Wendell Pierce Discusses His Controversial Role in ‘Four’ (LAFF Premiere Today)". Interview with Jasmin Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. June 15, 2012.

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• The whole idea of jazz came about was the interpretation of the human dialogue, trading fours. When someone's soloing and someone picks up the solo and plays it back at 'em, it was the imitation of the human dialogue. It was how people spoke, through music.

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  Play, Ideas, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.

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  Self, Paid, Ifs

  "Exclusive: Wendell Pierce Discusses His Controversial Role in ‘Four’ (LAFF Premiere Today)". Interview with Jasmin Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. Junuary 15, 2012.

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• The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

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  Culture, Roles, Who We Are

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. April 19, 2011.

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• Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.

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  Art, Jobs, Periods

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• New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life; it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.

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  New Orleans, Culture, Birth

  "Wendell Pierce Goes to Market". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2012.

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• Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.

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  Stories, Beginning Middle And End, Ends

  Source: collider.com

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• When you're doing comedy on stage, it's great because you have the audience there and they're like another actor in the scene. You feed off of them, laugh. But in film when everyone's quiet, it's all about timing. But the key to that is to be authentic. Be in the moment, and if you play the moment truthfully, the humor will be there.

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  Keys, Play, Laughing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We don't eat to live, we live to eat because that's a part of the creativity of the day.

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  Creativity

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I come out of journalism, and then book writing. There, it's just you and your editor and maybe a copy desk, looking over your editor's shoulder, and that's the story. It's right there. I can show it to you because it's on paper.

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  Book, Writing, Editors

  Source: collider.com

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• The real question is, Why do you feel as though that's emasculating? A man can't have a conflict? When you try to do art, it's how it lands on people, and hopefully some people will see it the way that I saw it, which is all of these awful choices come from the place of a man who's damaged.

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  Art, Real, Men

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Whenever I go someplace I always buy something, collect something, to help me remember the trip. So I guess I collect mementos from my many travels.

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  Helping, Remember, Memento

  "The Wire's Wendell Pierce on art, New Orleans, and his crush on Janet Jackson". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2015.

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• I'm so thankful when I have a job. I would say the worst job I ever had was the one I quit after the first night. I was an overnight restaurant janitor. And it wasn't because of the job. We had to do four restaurants in the night, overnight. But I was working with a den of thieves. I just quit the next day.

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  Jobs, Night, Next Day

  "The Wire's Wendell Pierce on art, New Orleans, and his crush on Janet Jackson". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. October 14, 2015.

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