Lance Reddick Quotes

Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

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

You either get better, or you don't progress.

Sometimes you have to say, "No. This is my space." If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.

From the time I became an actor my whole approach was to try to do as many different things as possible. It never occurred to me that I might be typecast.

Most of the characters I'd played were so different from me, so far from me that I had to transform.

I started to realize, a lot of times if you go into your memory, your sense memory, you know more than you think you do, from having watched and listened.

In drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

I graduated in '94 from Yale and New York Undercover was my first gig on TV. I was really all over the place with roles, which is what I wanted to do.

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

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

I'm an artist at heart.

Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.

'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.

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

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

When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.