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I started acting, almost on a whim to help my music career.
Lance Reddick
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Lance Reddick
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: December 31
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When I was working on The Wire with the other actors, scene after scene after scene, I felt like we were singing together. We were dancing together. I'm like, This is the best ensemble I've ever worked with. I'm working with these cats? Holy mackerel, this is heaven.
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I graduated in '94 from Yale and New York Undercover was my first gig on TV. I was really all over the place with roles, which is what I wanted to do.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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I started to realize, a lot of times if you go into your memory, your sense memory, you know more than you think you do, from having watched and listened.
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As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.
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You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
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You either get better, or you don't progress.
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Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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I’m interested not just in projects that I’ll be starring in, but producing film and TV that’s really quality and great for adults and when I say great for adults, it doesn’t mean without humor, because I’m also interested in doing comedy.
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A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb I didn't really flatline much. When I did The Wire, that's when I thought all the doors would open, but that's when things flatlined. I had a really hard time just getting seen for film, which was the next step.
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Don't be a victim if you want to make movies, make movies.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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It's funny, 90 percent of what I've done has been television, and I never really wanted to do it that much. I was really interested in film and theater. What's ironic is that when I started doing television, I did a bunch of amazing shows all in a row, starting with The Corner.
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I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
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I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.
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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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Sometimes you have to say, No. This is my space. If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.
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Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.
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From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred to me that I might be typecast.
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