Aldis Hodge Quotes

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• I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education. She always said, "Acting is a privilege not a priority. Education is the priority. If you're not bringing home As and Bs, you can't go on the audition."

  Aldis Hodge

  Mom, Home, College

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm always ready and willing to just keep pushing and working and going because it's in my spirit.

  Aldis Hodge

  Pushing, Spirit, Ready

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, it was definitely an education in being grateful. And appreciating the civil liberties we have today, the natural liberties we have at home.

  Aldis Hodge

  Grateful, Home, Appreciate

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out to blacks caught up in the criminal justice system. There's a problem when people profit from putting and keeping African Americans in prison. We need to do a better job as a nation understanding the real values the country's built upon in terms of fairness, equality and equal opportunity.

  Aldis Hodge

  Real, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• My mom experienced racism. She was harassed by the KKK several times. And I experienced racism myself, growing up. In New Jersey, we had trash thrown on our lawn every day. And we had the lines to our Christmas lights cut three years in a row. We just stopped putting up Christmas lights after that. That's probably why I still don't put up any lights during the holidays.

  Aldis Hodge

  Mom, Growing Up, Holiday

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Sometimes survival seems like submitting. And that's really hard on the spirit.

  Aldis Hodge

  Survival, Spirit, Sometimes

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I love my job, simply because we can keep things fresh, all the time. That's a luxury not all shows have. For us, as actors, it keeps us interested in our jobs and it keeps us coming back to work, every day. A new setting is amazing 'cause it's new for the team and it's new for our characters.

  Aldis Hodge

  Jobs, Team, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Some of my job consists of me drafting and making technical drawings. So everything I did back then has materialized into something substantial for me today. Whatever kids are into, that might be their thing.

  Aldis Hodge

  Jobs, Kids, Drawing

  "Aldis Hodge Emerges from the Underground". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 7, 2016.

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• You go home happy, you go to work happy, you make a better project because everybody loves it and loves each other.

  Aldis Hodge

  Home, And Love, Projects

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• They don't really focus on that history here in America. I remember growing up as a kid, history class was very washed-over. They didn't really get into the gritty bits of slavery. It's a very, very small section in the history books. It's not something they really touch on directly with American curriculums.

  Aldis Hodge

  Growing Up, Book, Kids

  "Aldis Hodge Emerges from the Underground". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 7, 2016.

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• With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It's great when you don't have to force it, but when it's not there you better focus on getting there, because as we live with these characters we spend more time with one another than we do our families at home.

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  Home, Character, Focus

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I remember my mom had a conversation with Sam Jackson about what she should do with our careers and what the next step should be; I was eight and my brother was nine. He said, "You need to get them on Broadway."

  Aldis Hodge

  Mom, Brother, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Regardless of the project, whenever you're working on something, the best you can hope for is to be around good people.

  Aldis Hodge

  People, Good People, Projects

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now, I actually have to a degree, a responsibility to ensure that it doesn't happen again.' I felt pride. When you're up there [in the noose] it does give you pause but I'm no stranger to degradation and dehumanization. I felt a lot of pride to be a part of showing something like this because a lot of people don't know and haven't been exposed to these types of historical experiences until they see it depicted on our show [Underground].

  Aldis Hodge

  Responsibility, Pride, Giving

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• There's still a place for marching for instance with the Black Lives Matter movement, we've seen the importance of causing a scene, being on the streets and making your demands and your voice heard.

  Aldis Hodge

  Voice, Black, Matter

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I also think it's important for us to hold our elected officials accountable and part of how you do that is simple, call them and let them know when you agree or disagree with what their decisions are and suggest how they should come out on certain legislation that important to you.

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  Thinking, Simple, Decision

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• It's important for us to vote in mid-term off year elections in the times where state legislators and mayors offices are being vacated. These are the elections that actually impact the way we live oftentimes more than the President. So we have to pay attention to those things as well.

  Aldis Hodge

  Years, Impact, Office

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• A subject I'm particularly passionate about is the criminal justice system and almost all of the policies that impact people's lives are determined on a local level.

  Aldis Hodge

  Impact, Justice, People

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• Democracy only works, as President [Barack] Obama spoke of in his farewell message, if it's driven by the people and the people stay active and vigilant and speak out and let their concerns be known.

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  Farewell, Speaks Out, People

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able to feature her this season is groundbreaking for a television series.

  Aldis Hodge

  Real, Superhero, Able

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I don't believe in breaks. Not yet. I'm too young. I'll find the next job to keep me busy between seasons.

  Aldis Hodge

  Jobs, Believe, Next

  Source: collider.com

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• I was too young to understand who Sam[uel L.] Jackson was or who Bruce Willis was, who Jeremy Irons was at the time. All I knew was that they were good to me then.

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  Iron, Young

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.

  Aldis Hodge

  Men, Car, Hot

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The danger in having modern music tied to a period piece is that hearing something may take you out of the moment.

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  Pieces, May, Hearing

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Because sometimes listening to something will connect to a feeling, it will allow you to emote subconsciously, and you don't even understand why you're in it.

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  Feelings, Listening, Sometimes

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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