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I want viewers to relate to me on a different level, not just a sexual level.

Morris Chestnut

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Morris Chestnut
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 1
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Television Actor
Cerritos
California
Morris Lamont Chestnut
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Viewers
Sexual
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I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action.
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My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen...
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You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.
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California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.
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I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.
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I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.
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When people are courting, many of them think that when they get married, that's it, and everything will be on Easy Street. But you really have to work even harder once you're married, because the challenges are that much greater.
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Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.
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In a lot of things I'm reacting to a lot of things. I'm reacting to a lot people around me. Sometimes not necessarily saying anything but I just have to be thinking it.
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I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film.
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Ultimately what I want to do, I want to go back and do some more action movies.
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Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.
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If someone had said to me ten years ago Yo, we have this role of this pimp who wants to be a rapper, he lives in Memphis, I'd be like, Really? But then when you read it and you see it, you say That's a great role.
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And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.
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I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.
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Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.
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I enjoy what I do, but it's more challenging than people think.
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I've had some physically challenging roles.
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Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.
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A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well.
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