42 Quotes by Andre Holland

With theater, depending on the audience, the show is different every night and really requires your constant concentration. With film, it's more possible to focus for shorter, more intense bits of time.

With 'Selma,' I grew up in Alabama, 45 minutes away from Selma. I have gone to that commemorative march many times with my parents.

Everybody gathered at my Aunt Hannah's house, and we sat around and talked, ate, drank and told lies. That's what people do, and I just sat there and listened.

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

I've lost friends over texting because I'm so bad at it.

A lot of people in the movie business don't have a point of reference for me; nobody really knows who I am.

It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can.

I've written a couple of scripts. Actually, a pilot. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say, but it's a comedy about three young men in New York City, one of whom may or may not be a romantic like me.

'The Knick' is set in New York during the 1990s, and it takes place around a hospital called The Knickerbocker. It's about a team of surgeons and nurses who are on the cutting edge of medicine.