Latest Morris Chestnut Quotes from Interviews

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• I would advice to focus on your craft. Nowadays, a lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or have a huge personality to become a star. But I think that if you just focus on the craft, you'll have a better chance at longevity.

  Morris Chestnut

  Thinking, People, Focus

  Source: aalbc.com

• I don't really know where the rumors started. They just started. Because I saw a number of people rumored for the role and there was never any discussion, never any conversations. I think Chadwick Boseman is a great actor. I saw Get on Up and he killed that role. So, I think he's going to do a great job.

  Morris Chestnut

  Jobs, Thinking, Numbers

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Interview with Screen Rant, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

• Ultimately what I want to do, I want to go back and do some more action movies.

  Morris Chestnut

  Want, Action, Action Movie

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Screen Rant Interview, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

• I've done a lot of different things. I would say, it's really hard for me to say what the ultimate role would be. You look at a film if it comes to you.

  Morris Chestnut

  Different, Would Be, Roles

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Interview with Screen Rant, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

• If someone had said to me ten years ago "Yo, we have this role of this pimp who wants to be a rapper, he lives in Memphis", I'd be like, "Really?" But then when you read it and you see it, you say "That's a great role."

  Morris Chestnut

  Rapper, Years, Pimp

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Interview with Screen Rant, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

• I think it's just growth, and development, timing. I've been fortunate to be around for a long time. Allowed me to get better as an actor. Allowed me to play better roles.

  Morris Chestnut

  Thinking, Play, Long

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Interview with Screen Rant, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

• California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.

  Morris Chestnut

  California, Mecca, Film

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Interview with Screen Rant, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

• I like being New Orleans. Different aspects. You have the lake house. You have a huge, almost plantation-style house, so I like the different elements of the city and what the city has to offer and putting it on the screen.

  Morris Chestnut

  Lakes, New Orleans, Cities

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Screen Rant Interview, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

• I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.

  Morris Chestnut

  Character, Thinking, Happens

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Interview with Screen Rant, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

• In a lot of things I'm reacting to a lot of things. I'm reacting to a lot people around me. Sometimes not necessarily saying anything but I just have to be thinking it.

  Morris Chestnut

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Interview with Screen Rant, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

• I've had some physically challenging roles.

  Morris Chestnut

  Challenges, Roles

  "Morris Chestnut On When the Bough Breaks & Executive Producing". Screen Rant Interview, screenrant.com. August 12, 2016.

• I try to keep in shape and I always have to check myself. Whenever I binge eat, sweets are the one temptation.

  Morris Chestnut

  Sweet, Temptation, Trying

  "'The Best Man Holiday' Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

• I didn't pursue acting to become famous. I was actually just trying to make a living.

  Morris Chestnut

  Trying, Acting, Pursue

  "'The Best Man Holiday' Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

• I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.

  Morris Chestnut

  Book, Reading, Scripts

  "'The Best Man Holiday' Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

• I like to eat sweets. When I go to a restaurant, I'll read the dessert menu before I even look at the entrees.

  Morris Chestnut

  Sweet, Looks, Dessert

  Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. November 14, 2013.

• A lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or have a huge personality to become a star. But I think that if you just focus on the craft, you'll have a better chance at longevity.

  Morris Chestnut

  Stars, Thinking, People

  "'The Best Man Holiday' Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

• You really don't have to worry about your spouse, as long as you trust him or her. If you trust your spouse or whoever you're in a relationship with, everybody else doesn't matter.

  Morris Chestnut

  Long, Worry, Matter

  "The Best Man Holiday" Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

• One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages.

  Morris Chestnut

  People, Different, Ensemble

  "'The Best Man Holiday' Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

• Action films are emotionally and physically draining, and you're dirty and sweaty. In a romantic comedy, you have to have your fingernails perfect, you're in air-conditioned rooms the whole time.

  Morris Chestnut

  Dirty, Air, Perfect

  "Interview: Morris Chestnut and Faizon Love". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 12, 2007.

• My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen...

  Morris Chestnut

  Football, Morning, Holiday

  "Interview: Morris Chestnut and Faizon Love". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 12, 2007.

• I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

  Morris Chestnut

  Looks, Pieces, Toronto

  "Press Conference Interview With Morris Chestnut And Monica Calhoun On The Best Man Holiday". Interview with Ben Kenber, wegotthiscovered.com.

• For me it's really tough because you have to go to that place where you really, really don't want to go to or revisit. After the first movie, when I was crying at the altar, whenever I would think about it, I would get chills for months after the first "Best Man" because I had to go to that place. And then, here we are with this one, and we are going to that place again. It's just extremely emotional to just have to keep revisiting it, but it can also be therapeutic.

  Morris Chestnut

  Thinking, Men, Emotional

  "Press Conference Interview With Morris Chestnut And Monica Calhoun On The Best Man Holiday". Interview with Ben Kenber, wegotthiscovered.com.

• Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that.

  Morris Chestnut

  Kids, Men, Thinking

  "Press Conference Interview With Morris Chestnut And Monica Calhoun On The Best Man Holiday". Interview with Ben Kenber, wegotthiscovered.com.

• I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence is not in a person, then the film is not going to encourage them.

  Morris Chestnut

  Believe, People, Decision

  "Interview: Morris Chestnut and Donald Faison Talk ‘Kick-Ass 2,’ Kickstarter Projects, BET Deals". Interview with Masha Dowell, www.indiewire.com. August 14, 2013.

• I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

  Morris Chestnut

  Workout, Work Out, Hip Hop

  "Morris Chestnut "Not Easily Broken". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 30, 2009.