36 Quotes by Lance Reddick

I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.

I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.

I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.

'Pigeonholed' isn't the right word, because I feel like I've had a very wide range of characters that I've been allowed to play.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.