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I've always given people the benefit of the doubt until they prove me otherwise.

Boris Kodjoe

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Boris Kodjoe
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: March 8
Actor
Film Actor
Model
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Vienna
Austria
Boris Frederic Cecil Tay-Natey Ofuatey-Kodjoe
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We are willing to weather the storm of multiple failures to achieve a goal. We're so convinced in the destination that we are able to let go of the reins and give it to God.
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In Vienna, when I was a year-and-a-half or two years-old. I remember it because I remember the little blue raincoat I used to wear, and how the buttons felt. I liked to walk on the street in front of our house when it was raining, and jump into all the puddles. That's weird, but that's my earliest memory.
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I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.
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Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do, as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don't make any sense.
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As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.
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When I set goals, they're more tangible than becoming famous. You don't build a company or a foundation for fame.
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I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.
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I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.
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I was always interested in medicine and I was actually a pre-med major.
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Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
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Secular artists see themselves with performance they are more self involved, presentational.
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I never dealt with fame. It was never a goal of mine to become famous.
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I had to study acting to basically educate myself.
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I don't put on a face. I'm the same guy every time you see me. I like to laugh, I like to smile, and I don't take myself too seriously. I can be a goofball. When I come home, the only thing that changes is that I take off the suit and put on tennis shorts and play with the kids.
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Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.
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Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
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I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.
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We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don't deal with ourselves and don't deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy.
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