Jeffrey Wright Quotes

Jeffrey Wright
Jeffrey Wright
American Actor
Born: Dec 7, 1965
Actor Me Think Work World You
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I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down. Jeffrey Wright
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Collaboration is a multilane highway, going in all directions. If there isn't reciprocity, it fails, and it's unsatisfying. Jeffrey Wright
Collaboration Directions Fails Highway Going
My first-ever job was when I was 14 or 15 in Washington, D.C., a job that I got through Marion Barry's summer-youth-employment program. It was working in the locker room of a public swimming pool, deep inside Anacostia in Southeast D.C., about five to 10 minutes from my house. Jeffrey Wright
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Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan. Jeffrey Wright
Culture Guess Harry Shaft Dirty Except He Along Always Yeah Lines Fan Much Pop Pop Culture Figure
I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops. Jeffrey Wright
Generation Hopefully My Generation Like Most Contemporary Least Effective Theater Chops Actor
Well, I like to be kept on my toes. I look for a challenge. I don't like to recreate steps that I've already walked. I like to see if I can create something new. Jeffrey Wright
Challenge See Something Something New Recreate Steps New Like Look Well Walked Create Toes Kept
I don't really consider myself a black man in Hollywood. I live in Brooklyn... and on purpose. Jeffrey Wright
Myself Man Black Live Consider Brooklyn Purpose Hollywood Really
I started surfing when I was working on 'The Hunger Games,' out on the north shore of Oahu, so about four years ago. I used to skateboard as a kid, kind of religiously, until I broke my leg riding in a pool when I was about 14 and I couldn't play football that fall. Jeffrey Wright
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We really don't discover fully what 'Westworld' is for this first season, until we get there. The first 10 episodes are the journey. The colors become brighter, the vistas become clearer, and the history is more understood with each step we take along the way. Jeffrey Wright
Journey History First Become Way More Colors Take Step Clearer Along Until Understood Discover Get Really Episodes Fully Each Season Brighter
I used to say that 'happy' was like 'lucky,' kind of imaginary. But now that I'm married and have children, I find that happiness is a real space. Jeffrey Wright
Happiness Happy Space Say Kind Married Find Like Real Children Used Lucky Now Imaginary
What I've learned in my career as an actor is that you're only as good as your collaborators. The process is many things, but it is wholly collaborative, particularly with something like 'Westworld,' which is a 10-episode-per-season gig, and we're just now on the 7th episode. Jeffrey Wright
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If a director can't figure out what they might get from me or whether he or she wants to work with me based on what I've done, then I can't tell them anything more than what they don't know already. Jeffrey Wright
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I took a class in college... I think we were reading some short Chekhov plays, and I knew the first day of the class that I was going to be an actor. It was just the bizarrest thing, but it just felt like home. Jeffrey Wright
Day Home Class College First Reading Think Took Some Knew Like Felt Chekhov Were Going Short Just Actor Thing Plays
When I think back on the work that I've been able to do and the work in my career of the highest quality, a huge portion of that has been on HBO. That didn't happen by accident. Jeffrey Wright
Work Quality Accident Think Back Has-Been Able Highest Been Huge Happen Portion Career
Comedy's all math, figuring out the timing. Jeffrey Wright
Comedy Timing Out Math Figuring
In theater, the primary tool for me was voice. On-screen, it's the eyes. Jeffrey Wright
Me Eyes Tool On-Screen Voice Primary Theater
I do a little Reddit, yeah! I pop in every now and again. Jeffrey Wright
Every Reddit Yeah Again Little Pop Now
I think survival, with agency intact, is heroic for anyone or anything. Jeffrey Wright
Survival Think Heroic Intact Anyone Anything Agency
I started acting when I was at Amherst my junior year, and my lacrosse career kind of started to flop sideways after that. Jeffrey Wright
Year Sideways Kind Junior Junior Year After Acting Amherst Flop Started Career
I played football and lacrosse in high school. They wanted me to play football at Amherst, which I did not do because my schedule was full enough as it was. But over the course of my student days, I played pretty much every sport out there. Jeffrey Wright
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For me, an actor is a person who makes characters like a cobbler makes shoes. Jeffrey Wright
Me Shoes Characters Like Makes Person Who Actor
When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist. Jeffrey Wright
Creativity World Money Made Diminish Would More Make Off Impression Artist Wanted Capacity Actor Thing Started Last
Our great nation put a man on the moon, but it can't train its cops to distinguish between an ordinary brown-skinned brother and a criminal. Jeffrey Wright
Great Man Moon Nation Criminal Our Distinguish Brother Great Nation Put Between Train Ordinary Cops
I ski and grew up skiing. Jeffrey Wright
Up Grew Ski Skiing

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