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When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.

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Andre Holland
Age: 44
Born: 1979
Born: December 28
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Alabama
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The horror genre is fun but I'm not sure it is quite right for me.
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I look at it [Moonlight] and young Alex Hibbert who plays the young Chiron gives such a beautiful performance. By the time you get to the third story there have been so many great performances that you forget this kid was brilliant. Everybody does their job. It really is a true ensemble. I wish that were a category at the Oscars.
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I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.
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My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential.
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I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell [Alvin McCraney] is my favorite playwright. I will do anything he asks. The characters were so clearly drawn and three dimensional. It was an easy thing to say yes to.
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I just hope to work with great people, and do things that are challenging for me and that I can be proud of and not have to hide my face about. Those are my guidelines.
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People sometimes say, What is your dream role? I don't really have a dream role. I'll know it when I see it.
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Now, perhaps more than ever, we need more and more examples of healing. We need to learn what it takes to heal.
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It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed that it is. Everyone needs to see this movie.
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Barry Jenkins just cast the right people and framed things the right way.
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