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You either get better, or you don't progress.
Lance Reddick
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Lance Reddick
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: December 31
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Film Actor
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Baltimore
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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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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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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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I started acting, almost on a whim to help my music career.
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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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When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
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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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I'm an artist at heart.
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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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I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
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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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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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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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In drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.
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Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.
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