Wentworth Miller Quotes - Page 2

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• I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly.

  Wentworth Miller

  Friday, Monday, Years

  "60 SECONDS: Wentworth Miller". Interview With Andrew Williams, metro.co.uk. April 18, 2006.

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• I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up.

  Wentworth Miller

  Laughing, Answers, Interviews

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• I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.

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  Block, Sleep, Weekend

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• I had a brief experience in the food industry. I was a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Arizona, scraping re-fried beans off people's plates. It teaches you a bit of humility and the importance of a good deodorant.

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  Humility, Boys, People

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• The backstory to anyone of mixed race is a lifetime spent being incorrectly perceived and choosing either to allow that misperception to continue or to correct it, so I am aware of identity and race as being much more fluid, I think, than someone who is "purely" one thing or the other. And acting does challenge me to address those particular issues.

  Wentworth Miller

  Thinking, Race, Issues

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.

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  Country, People, And Love

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's necessary when you're dealing with a dark show that has explosion and violence to have defined moments of lightness and humor, even romance. It's important, and it deepens the character, of course.

  Wentworth Miller

  Character, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I'm kind of a dork. I don't have much game. I'm not particularly comfortable in bars or clubs. I much prefer being home playing Scrabble, having dinner with a couple friends, going to see a movie, or losing a whole weekend to Season 14 of Law and Order or The Simpsons.

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  Couple, Home, Weekend

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.

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  Cells, Yards, Inmates

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• I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks.

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  Grateful, Idols, Pay

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• I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

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  College, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.

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  Littles, Transformation, Distinction

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• There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.

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  People, Acting, Inappropriate

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• I think ultimately that's why the audience will tune in longterm, for the characters and the relationships.

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  Character, Thinking, Tunes

  Source: www.ign.com

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• My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

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  Hands, White, Racism

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• I'm pretty much a couch potato.

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  Potatoes, Couches

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• A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

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  Luxury, Support, Community

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• I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.

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  Training, Three, Months

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• An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

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  Running, Jobs, Real

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• You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.

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  Education, People, Grind

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• As someone who has enjoyed visiting Russia in the past and can also claim a degree of Russian ancestry, it would make me happy to say yes. However, as a gay man, I must decline.

  Wentworth Miller

  Country, Attitude, Gay

  "Wentworth Miller Comes Out as Gay in Letter Slamming Russia's LGBT Crackdown" by Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 21, 2013.

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• A ghostly side note Soldier boy Miller played a Lucifer-like character in the final two episodes of Joan of Arcadia. Coincidence I do find it strangely poetic, ... that a character who shows up on a show about God to play something kind of satanic winds up in the very last two episodes of that show, and then appears in the show that replaces that show on its exact time and night the following season.

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  Character, Boys, Night

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• My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.

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  Mother, Father, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I were to wait only for roles that clarify my racial makeup, I'd be waiting for a very, very long time.

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  Makeup, Long, Waiting

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• To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it?

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  Girl, Home, Play

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