87 Quotes by Chadwick Boseman

I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.

You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.

I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.

When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that first meeting.

I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.

People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any more real people.' I don't agree with that.

When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically.

Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.

Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place.