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You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.

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Andre Holland
Age: 44
Born: 1979
Born: December 28
Actor
Film Actor
Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Alabama
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I went down and spoke to some of the people who lived in the neighborhood in Miami. At the end of the day I think my connection with Tarell [Alvin McCraney] is what helped me the most.
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I have worked with Tarell Alvin McCraney, who is the play Moonlight is based on. He's a company member at Steppenwolf. I have done a could of his plays here.
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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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I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.
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Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.
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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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Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have to go through in terms of the casting director, the producers, the studio, the network, reading with other people.
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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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Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.
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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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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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The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.
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I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.
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The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.
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I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.
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The horror genre is fun but I'm not sure it is quite right for me.
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There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring Julliard and NYU and Yale and hundreds of schools across the country graduate classes of trained actors, and in those classes are actors of color. So to say that there aren't enough actors of color is factually inaccurate.
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I am also producing and writing a bunch.
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I have known Tarell Alvin McCraney for ten years but the involvement with Moonlight came more with Barry Jenkins, the director. He was a fan of the show I did called The Knick. He was also with Plan B Entertainment, who produced Selma. That is how I got involved.
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[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!
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