A Quote by Chadwick Boseman

The industry looks for white actors and actresses, but it's not the same for black actors. We have to really put the work in.

Chadwick Boseman

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Actors Actors And Actresses Actresses Black Industry Looks Put Really Same White Work

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Chadwick Boseman
American - Actor
November 29, 1976 - August 28, 2020

I like to work and there's no movies for actors, period, especially black actors. When white actors are like, 'Man, there's no work out there,' then black actors are like, 'Are you kidding me?'

Marlon Wayans

Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.

Danny Glover

Most actors and actresses are performative as people. It goes part and parcel with the profession and New York actors who are out of work, or actors anywhere out of work, are manic because you never know when the next job is going to come.

Zoe Lister-Jones

I don't think Indian actors are good. A couple of them are, like Anupam Kher, but not many are there like him in the industry. There are thousand of actors and actresses in the industry, but you can count on hand how many of them are really good; the rest of them are just pretty faces.

Russell Peters

The only question we should ask is, 'Are they good?' I've met great actors, black and white, and I've met bad actors, black and white.

Noma Dumezweni

I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.

Spencer Tracy

I don't really understand why we are paid less than the male actors, because we put equal efforts, and recent past has shown that actresses can deliver a hit film. We deserve better pay, equal to what actors get.

Aditi Rao Hydari

We're interested by public personas and private personas, otherwise we wouldn't put on with actors rambling on with the same kind of stuff, over and over again, saying variations of the same thing. I'm always amazed by how fascinated people still are by actors because it's the same version of events that actors describe, all the time.

Toby Jones

I love actors, but I really love actresses, and I really love actresses whose work touched and informed my coming-up years.

Ryan Murphy

I am admiring of my fellow peers, black filmmakers and black actors and actresses.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

Idris Elba

Are there differences between black actors’ opportunities and white actors’ opportunities? Yes, there are. It’s been said.

Idris Elba

Honestly, in retrospect, when I referred to the actors from 'Prince' as non-actors or non-professionals, it was actually a great disservice to them. The fact is that they are all actors and should be viewed that way by the industry. It was our casting process that was non-professional.

Sean Baker

I just think that, you know, what young actors actors and actresses have to factor into their work is all of the social media and the pressures that come from social media and the scrutiny that they're under and so nothing goes under the radar.