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My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.
Michael K. Williams
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Michael K. Williams
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 22
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Brooklyn
New York
Michael Kenneth Williams
Michael Williams
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For me, my past characters been hard, the way they died, being murdered, the sadness that goes around, the death. It's a very hard thing to do.
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I don't dabble in politics too much. I'm really ignorant to the world of politics. I'm not that smart, I'm not that cunning, it's just too much smoke and mirrors for me. I just don't want to play that game.
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I don't consider myself a person of fashion because it's too sophisticated. My thing is I look at style like swagger. I like things that pull me, that I gravitate to.
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I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was nobody's gangster, I wasn't a thug, I wasn't selling drugs on the corner - I was scared of that.
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Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make mass incarceration a thing of the past.
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You know, my childhood was pretty colorful I like to use the word turbulent.
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Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue.
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I am a dark-skinned, nappy-headed, scar-faced dude from the streets of Brooklyn. I can't hide from being who I am. It's all over my face.
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I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else.
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I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.
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I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.
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I don't believe in typecasting. Just because all my characters may come from the other side of the tracks doesn't mean they are all the same. You don't stereotype people and generalize people, everyone's different.
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No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.
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My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.
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I'm looking for diversity, all my characters may or may not be on the wrong side of the tracks. It doesn't mean that they're all the same.
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The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.
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I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.
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Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.
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Music's been part of my entire life. It's in my DNA.
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The most successful people reach the top not because they are free of limitations, but because they act in spite of their limitations
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