Quotes by Jay Ellis - Page 1

I try to be as realistic as possible.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Realistic
Trying
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Dating, to people, can mean completely different things.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Dating
Different Things
People Mean Things
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When you love somebody, you gotta be honest with them even if it'll hurt them.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Gotta
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I'm not a believer in 'what you don't know won't hurt you,' unless it's innocent.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Believer
Hurt
Innocent
Unless
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I like to be fulfilled in telling stories and in creating, but I'm just a curious person.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Fulfilled
Curious Person
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I had a journalist slap me, and it wasn't anyone that I had ever met before. I was at the airport.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Slap
Airport
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Whoopi Goldberg, Lily Tomlin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus - I put Issa Rae in that category of comic genius.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Comic
Julia
Category
Lily
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As a young, Black man in America, I look out and (realize) that our community is the most affected by HIV.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Men
America
Community
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Ghana is one of the countries in Western Africa that still has quite a few of their slave castles still standing.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Castles
Country
Ghana
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Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Easy
Hiv
Knowing
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I worked for a smoothie company, and that was rough. I also sold women's shoes for a very long time. That was super rough.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Long Time
Rough
Time Women Long
Sold
Super
Very Long Time
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I love to study people and pick apart what makes a person or character who they are. I never want to get complacent in that.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Character
Complacent
Study
Love People Never
Apart
Love Character People
Pick
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At the end of the day, we're people and we should fight for each other and we should make sure the well-being of each one of us is taken care of.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Fighting
People
Taken
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I want to create this pool of talent to draw from, and I hope that people get inspired to make more web series and bring them to me to help develop.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Pool
Series
Talent
Hope Me People
Develop
Draw
Web
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Storytelling is always evolving, but if you allow people with new voices and perspectives to come in, you open audiences up to different walks of life.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Storytelling
Walks
Life Always People
Audiences
Life People New
Evolving
Perspectives
Voices
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I love the 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.' I love everybody. I loved every single person in the Cosby house, I loved every single person who went to Hillman.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Single Person
Cosby
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If you have HIV, I don't think there's anything to be ashamed of. Get treatment and don't think that you're out of options or resources because you're not.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Hiv
Resources
Thinking
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I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it's how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we're meant to be on.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Journey
Life Is A Journey
Meant To Be
Path
Rebound
Us
Life Journey Life Is A Journey
Mistakes
Make
Those
Meant
How
Learn
Life Is A
Sets
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HIV is not a death sentence. It doesn't mean life's over. It means that life's going to be different, but you still get to have those moments that people who don't have HIV experience.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Different
Mean
People
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I quit my job and for almost two years I didn't tell anyone, not even my family or friends. And for those two years I enrolled in acting classes. I acted in some capacity every single day.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Jobs
Class
Years
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As long as you're consistently working on your craft, your heart is in the right place, and you pair that with being smart on how you present yourself to people, opportunities will appear.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Opportunity
Heart
Smart
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Every artist is a walking business. Your marketing tools are your headshots and your reel. That's what people see that's what your out there pushing trying to get a rep and that isn't easy.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Artist
Marketing
People
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When you go out and audition, you're going to hear a lot of 'No's.' As weird as it may sound, you almost have to love hearing 'no' because you're going to hear it way more than you hear 'yes'.
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May
Sound
Way
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There are tons of talented people out there, and we just don't get a chance to get into this system. I want to be a part of that. I want to help these young, diverse, unique voices tell stories.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Chance
Diverse
Stories
Unique
Talented
System
Talented People
Tons
Voices
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Agents run a business, and their business is their talent; some are more general and broad and can rep a little bit of everything; some are more niche. You have to be specific with who you approach and how.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Agents
Approach
Little Bit
Niche
Talent
General
Broad
Rep
Specific
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I read the script first to get the perspective on the whole story, the writing, and how the character I'm auditioning for is talked about by other people or relates to other people; from there, I go into the sides.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Perspective
Sides
Auditioning
Relates
Script
Talked
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Once I got my business degree I realized I didn't want to do business anymore. My passion started to kick in and say, "Are you really sure this is what you want to do with the rest of your life? Are you 100% positive?"
Jay Ellis / Actor
Degrees
Passion
Want
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I auditioned for Lamorne Morris' part, Winston, on 'New Girl.' In the scene, the character was eating a mayonnaise sandwich. I thought, 'Nobody else is going to go into the audition eating, and this is how I'm gonna set myself apart.'
Jay Ellis / Actor
Eating
Mayonnaise
Morris
Scene
Apart
Audition
Nobody Else
Sandwich
Winston
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I feel like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, which is both settling and terrifying. The roller coaster is going, and there is no jumping off at this point unless I just go nuclear. It's a really interesting part of the whole journey.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Journey
Interesting
Jumping
Nuclear
Roller Coaster
Settling
Whole
Both
Part
Coaster
Exactly
Off
Terrifying
Point
Roller
Supposed
Unless
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You have to believe in yourself and you have to take risks. You know how people say 30 is new 20 and 40 is new 30? Well I think essentially what that's telling us is there are so many opportunities out there, you don't have to rush into something.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Opportunity
Believe
Thinking
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I run the material, always with two people, sometimes three. We all see things so differently, so to get a couple of people's perspectives on what I'm doing and the material itself is insanely helpful for honing in on what to take into the audition room.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Honing
Always People Doing
Audition
People Sometimes Doing
Perspectives
Two People
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It's like one of the best things that can ever happen to you as an actor: to have your story reach people, even if they don't look like you and even though they may not be able to identify with a black male; they can still identify with what's happening to you.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Best Look Black
Identify
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Where I went to high school at was a predominantly white town, and I definitely got pulled over a number of times for driving in the wrong car on the wrong side of town. As you get older, you start to realize that at any moment, there could be a trigger, and that could be you in that situation.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Pulled
Trigger
Wrong Side
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Young women who come to Rise every weekend range from ages 15-19 years if they're in school and 19-24 years if they're out of school. These empowered young women talk about protecting themselves, their friends and communities and how they can educate people to help break the stigma surrounding AIDS.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Aids
Educate
Empowered
Range
Stigma
Weekend
Young Women
Ages
Protecting
Surrounding
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After the success of 'Empire' and 'How to Get Away with Murder' and 'Scandal' and 'Power' and 'Black-ish', which all had characters that were genuine, authentic, and had the language of real people, I found myself coming into pilot season and every network just wanted to have their version of one of those shows.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Genuine
Scandal
Authentic
Version
Empire
Pilot
Real People
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You can try your passion for a while and see if it works and if it doesn't, at least you tried. I think that's why I quit my job and went back to acting. I said this is what I'm going to dedicate my life to doing because I didn't want to look up and say, "Man I wish I would have been an actor. I wish I would have tried."
Jay Ellis / Actor
Jobs
Men
Passion
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We [African-Americans] are nearly half of all of the new cases of HIV every year, but we only represent 13 percent of the [U.S.] population. So, this is something that's literally bombarding our community, non-stop. We're such a small part of the nation [and] those numbers are alarming. We're putting ourselves in danger, we don't talk about getting tested and we don't talk about knowing [your status].
Jay Ellis / Actor
Knowing
Numbers
Years
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We think that if we get tested, that means you have to have HIV. Or we think that just by knowing someone with HIV, we're going to get HIV or because he's gay or she's a lesbian or whatever. This false information has been put out there and it's created this stigma that stops us from going to find out if we're infected. The truth is it doesn't matter who you are, if you're having sex, you need to be getting tested, plain and simple.
Jay Ellis / Actor
Gay
Mean
Sex
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