Quotes by Lakeith Stanfield - Page 1

I'm in this music duo called Moors.
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Music
Duo
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I'm influenced a lot by my family. I have a big family.
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Family Big Big Family
Big Family
Influenced
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My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I'm writing to his beats.
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Beats
Producer
Sounds
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I love 'Watch the Throne,' because Kanye was acting so ratchet.
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Throne
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They say every five years the atoms in your body become a new set of atoms.
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Atoms
Your Body
They Say
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I write poetry, and I put it to a beat - I mean, that's what they call rap.
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Poetry
Beat
Call
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Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.
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Explore
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I've done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.
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Mic
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Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions.
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Honesty
Boasting
Expressing
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I always knew I'd be an actor. I always knew I'd at least be on a big screen somewhere.
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Big Screen
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I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.
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Expressive
Myself Always Way
Myself Way Always
Super
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When I was little, when I was a toddler or something, I would watch 'Jason's Lyrica' lot.
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Jason
Toddler
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My two little twin brothers have autism, so I grew up around it and misunderstood it for a long time.
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Autism
Grew
Long Time
Time Long Long Time
Brothers
Twin
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I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing.
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Fortunate
Barrel
Little Baby
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I was born in San Bernardino in summer of '91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Victorville.
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Born
Grew
Riverside
Summer
Born I Was Born Up
San
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Hip-hop is not all '2 Chainz' - although '2 Chainz' is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don't know.
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Awesome
Metaphors
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Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.
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Real Life
Life Music Thinking
Full-Time
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My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.
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Dance
Focus
Myself Focus Me
Forms
Express
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Have you ever heard of 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' I would like to play Sidney Poitier's role - I love that role.
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Dinner
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Just listening and going back and forth and exchanging ideas with people. It's a beautiful thing. This is what's really important.
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Exchanging
Beautiful Thing
Forth
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I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn't have many friends in my age group because all they wanted to do was fight and have riots.
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Age Group
Riots
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I want to be in some Willy Wonka-type weird stuff, a role where I'm an alien. Anything that's new and challenging and real. I like real stuff.
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Alien
Challenging
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It's a hard thing when you've got guns pointed at you, to still stand up for what you believe in. Jimmie Lee and his family did that, and several others.
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Guns
Hard Thing
Lee
Pointed
Stand Up
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Some people look like they're lost causes, but they're not. Even if they're in a messed up situation, the one little thing you do to help can go a long way.
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Causes
Long Way
Messed Up
Little Thing
Messed
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I wanted to be as genuine as possible because all those people like Jimmie Lee Jackson - me, Mike Brown, all these people - we're all the same; we're not much different.
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Genuine
Mike
Me People Possible
Jackson
Lee
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You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don't have a guide by which to channel that energy, then a lot of times, it's futile.
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Intelligent
Intelligent Person
Channel
Futile
Guide
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My biggest strength is I'm courageous, or if I am afraid of something, I do it anyway. I do what I feel. It's nothing personal against anyone, so that courageousness has been very good to me.
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Courageous
Anyway
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I'm from Victorville - it's about an hour-and-a-half away from Los Angeles, up in the desert. They call it Victimville because it's kind of violent. It's a beautiful place, though. It's quiet.
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Desert
Los Angeles
Quiet
Beautiful Beautiful Place Place
Angeles
Beautiful Place
Call
Los
Though
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The prison industrial system, things like that are cleverly put in place to attempt to marginalize a certain group of people - and it's not only black, it's replete across the American society.
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American Society
Society People Black
Attempt
Society Black People
Industrial
Marginalize
Replete
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I really like watching myself a lot because it gives me an opportunity to see it from outside the flesh, and when I view it like that, I can be a lot more cynical and see the things that need to be attacked.
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Myself Opportunity Me
Attacked
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I've been fortunate to get involved with 'Short Term 12.' I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word 'actor' in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition.
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Fortunate
Term
Audition
Clicking
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I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American.
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Fabric
Prejudice
Biases
Deeply
Mind People Doing
Gotten
Ingrained
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I grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides, but I sort of put up these reflectors to most of the negative things that have occurred in my life. I don't carry around much baggage.
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Baggage
Both Sides
Sides
Life Family My Life
Carry
Dysfunctional
Fractured
Occurred
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That was like my safe place with great teachers where everyone could let down their guard and not feel judged. As soon as we walk outside, it was like, 'Look at these weird drama club kids.' But we all had our own agreement that we were cool in our own way.
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Agreement
Judged
Let Down
Teachers
Great Teachers
Guard
Safe Place
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When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.
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Authority
Bondage
Oppressors
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It's been constant grinding and trying to secure work that I care about, tireless auditions and meetings. I've been fortunate that a lot of cool doors have opened to me, chiefly meeting great people who were inspired by what I've done and what they feel I could bring to their projects.
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Auditions
Constant
Doors
Fortunate
Great People
Secure
Cool Work Great
Chiefly
Grinding
Meeting
Opened
Tireless
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We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of Englishmen, and we would sip tea and act like we were rich in front of the family, and they thought it was just hilarious, the level of perception that we had about things that we'd never experienced.
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Hilarious
Accents
Englishmen
Perception
Rich
Sock
Tea
Family Me Day
Puppet
Experienced
Sip
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