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Addiction is a health issue, not a social issue, not a crime, not a legal issue.

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Michael K. Williams
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 22
Actor
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Film Actor
Film Producer
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Brooklyn
New York
Michael Kenneth Williams
Michael Williams
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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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Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.
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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 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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Music's been part of my entire life. It's in my DNA.
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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.
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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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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 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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I do happen to love Honey Nut Cheerios. I don't know if I want to walk down to the store in my pajamas for them. But I do love them.
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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 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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The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.
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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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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'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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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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Ending a television character that you've been, especially someone like Omar Little, it hurts. For me, it's a huge thing. You feel like a part of you is gone.
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I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.
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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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