59 Quotes by Blair Underwood

That is the thing I’m most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage – at this stage of the game.

I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that’s going on around the world right now, it’s just good to go to a movie where you don’t have to think too hard, just have a good time, and relax and be crazy.

I haven’t done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

It’s about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.

It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it’s got to be a great script and a great character.

It’s something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.

When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that’s all I want to do with my life and she said if you’re serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.

My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy’s movie is wack, but they loved it.

I’ll tell you what 20 years teaches you – is that if one thing doesn’t last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.