Latest Lance Reddick Quotes from Interviews

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• I feel like my public life isn't necessarily my own. I'm starting to get used to how to maneuver and operate in New York in a way that I don't get stopped all the time. I just pretty much say "Thank you." But one of the things is to try to keep moving. Not to stop too long, because people try to get into a conversation with you all the time. The hardest thing is on the subway, or when people try to chase you down.

  Lance Reddick

  Moving, Long, People

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• 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.

  Lance Reddick

  Sometimes, My Space

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• I did an Off-Broadway show that was a comedy written by Ann Meara. We were like a family, and we did that show for a year. On Oz, I did feel like the cast members were friends and there was a lot of bonding. That said, there was a lot of testosterone. Once again, it was full of really intense theater actors with this writing that was really intricate and subtle.

  Lance Reddick

  Writing, Comedy, Intense

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• 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.

  Lance Reddick

  Memories, Thinking, Realizing

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• When I was working on The Wire with the other actors, scene after scene after scene, I felt like we were singing together. We were dancing together. I'm like, "This is the best ensemble I've ever worked with. I'm working with these cats? Holy mackerel, this is heaven."

  Lance Reddick

  Cat, Dancing, Heaven

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

  Lance Reddick

  Character, Different

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• What's interesting is, most of the people who are fans of the The Wire who black people or cops... most of the people in the industry are the crew: writers, actors and directors. And so they understand what it is that we do, so they think, "Wow, what a incredible group of amazing actors." It's funny, I think there are a couple of reasons why we have never gotten any nomination for anything except for writing.

  Lance Reddick

  Couple, Writing, Thinking

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• That's what David Caruso said to me. We were talking about the whole Emmy thing, and he said that one of the things about awards in this town is that a lot is about the drama - like the drama of the performance. And he said "Your show, The Wire, looks so real, it almost looks like a documentary. And people who aren't artists - a lot of people who vote for this stuff - don't get it."

  Lance Reddick

  Real, Drama, Artist

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• I was coming from a theater background. I had an obsession with classic film and cool, interesting, intelligent television. I didn't really understand the way the mainstream television industry worked. I just thought "The wire is so good that it's going to be a huge hit, and we'll get awards up the yin-yang forever." That's what I thought!

  Lance Reddick

  Intelligent, Interesting, Forever

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• A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I didn't really flatline much. When I did The Wire, that's when I thought all the doors would open, but that's when things flatlined. I had a really hard time just getting seen for film, which was the next step.

  Lance Reddick

  Hard Times, Wire, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right. If they have a preconceived notion about the role and it goes against my instinct, unless it makes sense to me, it often throws off what I'm trying to do. Though sometimes they have an insight that I don't because they've been living with the script. I don't have one feeling or another about notes, but it is always a little bit of a red alert when I get one in an audition.

  Lance Reddick

  Feelings, Trying, Sometimes

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• It's funny, 90 percent of what I've done has been television, and I never really wanted to do it that much. I was really interested in film and theater. What's ironic is that when I started doing television, I did a bunch of amazing shows all in a row, starting with The Corner.

  Lance Reddick

  Ironic, Done, Film

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• 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.

  Lance Reddick

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

  Lance Reddick

  Drama, School, Character

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• 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.

  Lance Reddick

  Trying, Different, Actors

  "Q&A: Lance Reddick on White House Down and Being a Badass". Interview with Esquire.com, www.esquire.com. June 30, 2013.