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I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else.

Michael K. Williams

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Michael K. Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 22
Actor
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Television Actor
Brooklyn
New York
Michael Kenneth Williams
Michael Williams
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My goal as an actor, as an up-and-coming actor in this business is to stay consistent with the work, you know, and if you do good work, and stay focused on the work, writers and directors will pay attention.
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I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.
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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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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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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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Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.
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My dancing came about as a way to be cool, actually. I knew early on that I was not a street kid. I didn't have the moxie, what it took to run the streets with the dudes that I grew up wanting to emulate. But I had a huge need to be accepted, so I found that I could be the party king. I did drugs really well, and I partied really well.
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Music's been part of my entire life. It's in my DNA.
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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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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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My goal is to end mass incarceration and change the laws to stop locking up low-level, nonviolent drug charges. Stop charging drug addicts as criminals.
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My main goal, starting out as a young actor, was to carry the reins that Pac left off and to reach the depths as an actor that I know he would have reached had he still been here with us.
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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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Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.
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Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.
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I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered for that character.
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