Latest Michael Jai White Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm a big fan of Steven Seagal early films. On Deadly Ground, I'll watch that anytime it comes on. That's one of the reasons I wanted to work with him. I remember that he's got a great eye for photography. There was a lot that I learned from that.

  Michael Jai White

  Photography, Eye, Remember

• I have a nineteen-month old daughter. I totally don't mind devoting time to her. When you have a kid, it's hard to go out to the movies. I really don't know what's going on with comic book movies.

  Michael Jai White

  Daughter, Book, Kids

• Recognizing absolutely depends on the public that I'm out with. If I'm in Atlanta, it's definitely Why Did I Get Married. If I'm in Seattle, it's Spawn or something like that. I'm known for a lot of different things. People will call me Bone a lot, the action aficionados.. People who like comedy, they call me Black Dynamite.

  Michael Jai White

  People, Black, Different

• I'm a big Harrison Ford fan. I kind of pattern a lot of things after him, the way that he's an every man. He's one of the biggest action stars ever, but he transcends that term because he's such a good actor. I tend to really appreciate the stuff he's done.

  Michael Jai White

  Men, Appreciate, Done

• I feel like I'll be defined more so by ... when I get a chance to play roles where I'm the father/husband. I'd like to continue with the action stuff, but when I get to play the father/husband role, I think that will be the time where I'm playing who I really am. I look forward to playing those kind of heroic characters, the types that are usually associated with Denzel Washington.

  Michael Jai White

  Husband, Father, Character

• It doesn't seem weird to me, at all. I'm in Baton Rouge getting ready to direct a movie for Sony, and I'm in the movie and I'm directing it. I know it's kind of this thing where some people find it difficult. I just finished a movie with Mario Van Peebles and he acted and directed as well too. I think we all feel similar that it just kind of seems natural.

  Michael Jai White

  Thinking, People, Kind

• It's not really a preparation when you know the character that you're playing. It's not too difficult. It would be more difficult the first time, I guess.

  Michael Jai White

  Character, Preparation, First Time

• I enjoy playing real human beings after playing a lot of larger than life characters. I love playing true to life characters and that is what I intend to do for the majority of my career.

  Michael Jai White

  Real, Character, Careers

• To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.

  Michael Jai White

  Responsibility, Blue, Perspective

  "Interview with Falcon Rising star and martial artist Michael Jai White". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. September 8, 2014.

• I am my own worst critic and I am hell to pay so I just have to do everything to my utmost ability.

  Michael Jai White

  Pay, Hell, Worst

• In my early childhood, I was a performer by nature. I used to do puppet shows as a kid and entertain kids in classes and the teachers would make it a point that I was the entertainer of the class, but only after high school and in college that I started doing theater and acting classes, because I thought it would be fun.

  Michael Jai White

  Teacher, Fun, School

  "Interview with Falcon Rising star and martial artist Michael Jai White". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. September 8, 2014.

• I did not think I had what it took to be an actor, because most of the actors that I encountered were people who were very narcissistic and I thought since I lacked narcissism to become an actor because that's what it took. It was more of a social experiment for me to walk in the shoes of other people that I found interesting.

  Michael Jai White

  Thinking, Shoes, People

  "Interview with Falcon Rising star and martial artist Michael Jai White". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. September 8, 2014.

• When you don't have much money, you get creative. There's so much money that gets wasted on big movie sets. But when you don't have much money, you improvise.

  Michael Jai White

  Creative, Bigs, Big Movie

  "Michael Jai White on martial arts, heavy makeup, and starting out with Troma". Interview with Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, film.avclub.com. May 13, 2015.

• I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

  Michael Jai White

  Fun, Winning, Logic

  "Michael Jai White on martial arts, heavy makeup, and starting out with Troma". Interview with Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, film.avclub.com. May 13, 2015.

• I take every role seriously. Personally, I never look at any role as Michael White. I've done that my entire life. I've never excluded myself because of color. It's never been part of the radar, when I look at anything I do. The majority of the roles that I've played have had very little to do with being black. It doesn't matter what color you are.

  Michael Jai White

  Color, White, Black

  "Michael Jai White Talks ARROW Season 2, Bringing Bronze Tiger to Life, Fighting with Knuckle Blades, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2013.