Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Charles S. Dutton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Charles S. Dutton.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Charles S. Dutton

Charles Stanley Dutton is an American actor and director. He is best known for his roles in the television series Roc (1991–1994) and the television film The Piano Lesson (1995), the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. His other accolades include three Primetime Emmy Awards and three NAACP Image Awards.

I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.
I don't even know if I can call myself a director.
First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.
I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.
The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.
Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.
This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.
I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money. — © Charles S. Dutton
I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.
For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you're going to be stuck with it for two years, and if you don't love it it's going to look like that on screen.
You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.
I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries. — © Charles S. Dutton
I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.
Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.
Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.
What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.
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