Quotes by Jesse Williams - Page 1

I like to take credit for the work that I have done.
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Credit
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Words are only as good as the response to those words.
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Response
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Blackness is not a monolith. We are not homogenous people; we are not all the same.
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Blackness
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Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.
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Adolescence
Big Part
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I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.
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Forty
Collector
Download
Record
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Storytelling is based on the word, being an honorable person of integrity is based on your word.
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Honorable
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I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest.
Jesse Williams /
Medical School
Work Out
To Be Honest
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I'm an athletic junkie - I play in all the celebrity all-star games, and I've become buddies with a bunch of athletes.
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Bunch
All-Star
Athletes
Buddies
Celebrity
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We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life.
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Worthy
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Coming from New York, you're kind of indoctrinated with anti-L.A. sentiment, but California is just a really dope state.
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New York
California
Sentiment
York
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I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family.
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Film
Interesting
Theater
Love Family Always
Tv
Tv And Film
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I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.
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Depressing
Processing
Funny Always Me
Combine
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It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.
Jesse Williams /
Interesting Things
Life Me Better
Life Your Me
Brings
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You have to be up-front from the very beginning about what your expectations of the other person are, and you can't make any promises you don't intend to keep.
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Intend
Promises
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I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.
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Anatomy
Grateful
Grey
Grey's Anatomy
Public School
Fully
School Teacher
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I'm kind of in a middle space, being marketed as a biracial actor. Roles are written either stereotypically black, or they're written 'normal,' which is just code for white.
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Code
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We as men, in particular black men, are constantly supported, nurtured, forgiven, apologized for, led, followed and coddled by black women, and they get very little in return.
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Forgiven
Return
Men Women Black
Apologized
Women Men Black
Followed
Nurtured
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We often grow up being told that we can do this or that, but if you don't see anybody that looks like you doing it, you don't believe you can do it. But I had great teachers, and I wanted to be a great teacher.
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Teacher
Great Teacher
Looks
You Can Do It
Teachers
Anybody
Grow Up
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If someone says, 'Democracy is a sham, those people don't speak for me... the system's rigged,' you say, 'Vote.' Someone says, 'I was making a statement by not voting,' and then you say, 'Well I can't hear it.'
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Rigged
Voting
Sham
Statement
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Staying true to our goals, Question Bridge as a company and as a project is not singularly about black males. One of the things I'm so excited about Question Bridge is that my vision goes far beyond black males.
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Males
Staying
Vision
Beyond
Bridge
Project
One Of The Things
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That's why the role that I have on 'Grey's Anatomy' is important to me, because it's a human being. He doesn't have to wear race on his sleeve; he doesn't even have to talk about it. We just lead by our actions.
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Anatomy
Grey
Grey's Anatomy
Race
Talk
Actions
Wear
Human Being
Role
Sleeve
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The truth we are teaching is that every contribution in the history of the planet came from blonde people. It's not true, and it's destructive, and people are getting killed long term as a result. People don't believe that we deserve it.
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Contribution
Deserve
Destructive
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I grew up in a really horrible school system, but my parents did not let that define how we function. They gave me more work at home from them than I ever got from school. To learn about the history of myself and my people, and that armors me.
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Function
Horrible
School System
Define
Gave
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The interesting thing about white power and the desperate white knuckling grip on this thing call whiteness, which is a myth in itself, is that black folks... we're not asking you to invent new laws for us. We're asking you to include us in the laws that are already on the books.
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Desperate
Myth
Whiteness
Grip
Include
Interesting Thing
Invent
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As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.
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Backwards
Elements
Layers
Meat
Decisions
Work Character Your
Ground
Informs
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I don't check for Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly or any of these demons on the Right. They don't wake me up in the morning. I don't care about them, and they certainly don't drive the conversations I'm thinking about, but they do have an audience, and they do lie all day, every day about disenfranchised people.
Jesse Williams /
Disenfranchised
Sean
All Day
Check
Conversations
Demons
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There's so much material out there that's unnecessarily racist. It takes a shot at what is 'urban' or demonstrates blackness with some sassy, neck-jiving character that's not even relevant to the plot. I see it time and time again, and it doesn't move the story forward. It just kind of cryogenically freezes us in this old racial paradigm.
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Blackness
Paradigm
Plot
Relevant
Sassy
Urban
Time Character See
Shot
Forward
Just Kind
Material
Racial
Time And Time
Unnecessarily
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