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We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

What you desire, as an actor, is to have an impact. That's why you did it. You want to move people, and you want to resonate with your audience. It's always a great compliment to have people appreciate and speak of the characters. I can go anywhere in the world, to places where people don't actually speak English, and people can say, verbatim, what I said on the show as Mr. Eko, which is great. That's fun!

― Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.

― Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.

― Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Different Nationalities

Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.

― Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Different Charac

It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

― Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast. I made a concerted effort, last year and this year, to get a range of characters, just to show people the range that I have, and for them to be able to see the artistry beyond the color.

― Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Different Characters

There are conservative people in all colours in America.

― Adepero Oduye

I grew up in New York and I've always lived here, so I look at myself as a regular person. When somebody recognizes me from the film - and it can be a wide range of people, which shows the power of film - I feel like they're talking about someone else we both know. I just find it hard to believe that anyone would stop me to share how much they loved something that I was a part of.

― Adepero Oduye

Hard To Believe

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

― Adepero Oduye

A series is a big deal, and there are a lot of people out there writing stuff that don't know what art is.

There is something extraordinary about people who have a disability to reach (into themselves) on a daily level that becomes supernatural.

― Kristoffer Polaha

Kristoffer Polaha

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