Top 114 Quotes & Sayings by Omari Hardwick
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Last updated on September 19, 2024.
I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
For a long time, I had been very secretive about a lot of the things I'd been through personally, and a lot of that is purposeful. My fan base, for the large part, is the younger generation. They're like, 'I want to know everything! I want to know it all!'
As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.
I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
I think Gil Scott-Heron is a king. He's a brilliant, broken king.
Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
You can't look at the dollar and say, 'I'm not what I dreamed of being unless I do this type of movie and it's a blockbuster that gives me this amount of dollars.' That's not good.
Women are so necessary for us in terms of support.
When I think about the person who's been most in my ear, it's Joe Dumars.
The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.
Real to Reel is a rare opportunity for new filmmakers to screen their work for industry insiders.
We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
If you remain open to great directors who look like you, who know what they're doing and are making impactful films that are destroying these 'blockbuster films,' you can do okay, and everybody can get more of a piece of the pie. But you've got to be open and brave.
You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.
I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.
I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.
When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man.'
I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon.
I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.
It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.
Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
I got in trouble for saying I would move my family to Europe, but I said it.
If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
When you start out on a project as an actor, you know, you approach the character from the standpoint of maybe writing a list - even if it's a mental list that you make - of the adjectives that the character has or that character possesses.
I'm safe where I'm at just being the guy where people go, 'That's a really good actor. What's his name again?' I liked being at that place.
Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.
I think, by nature you know, I'm very attracted and I gravitate toward the very strong girl who can watch a ballgame, but who's also extremely feminine.
So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
I think the universe just brings people around others they find to be interesting.
I always had an interest in telling stories.
A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
To make your own family is just the most empowering thing ever. It's the greatest thing you can ever pull off.
I was definitely a Daddy's boy.
I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.
I know that Donald Trump is a smart man.
Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
Poetry has, in a way, been my bridge to my acting career.
I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.
I come from the stage, so I started in New York, lived there for eleven years.
Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.
I did 'Fences' off-broadway at the Beacon Theater, so it's amazing that Denzel Washington and Viola Davis brought it to Broadway.
Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & Flow' and lived in both of these outfits. It was one of the best experiences of my professional life.
I use Aveeno cleansers and moisturizers.
I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
I've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.
I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring.
For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
Women are amazing lovers.
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