Lance Reddick famous quotes

03-28-2025

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
-- Lance Reddick

#Stars #Artist #Rocks
If you're going to come at me, come at me respectfully, and I will respond respectfully.
-- Lance Reddick
It's funny, because 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
Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.
-- Lance Reddick

#Auditions #Instinct #Notes
Nothing will ever top 'The Wire.' It was historical. It was black cinema.
-- Lance Reddick

#Historical #Black #Wire
The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.
-- Lance Reddick

#Community #African American #Entertainment
The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
-- Lance Reddick

#Real #Organization #Wire
When you're in a high-stress situation, dynamics between people can change.
-- Lance Reddick

#Stress #People #Dynamics
You either get better, or you don't progress.
-- Lance Reddick

#Get Better #Progress
I'm an artist at heart.
-- Lance Reddick

#Heart #Artist
I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.
-- Lance Reddick

#Careers #Acting #Helping
I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
-- Lance Reddick

#Mean #Quality #Adults
Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
-- Lance Reddick

#Art #Journalism #Art Is
Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.
-- Lance Reddick

#Friendly #Quality #Way
Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
-- Lance Reddick

#Want #Victim
Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.
-- Lance Reddick

#Growing Up #Would Be #Actors
I can only speak as an American, but most journalism here isn't doing its job any more. It's about selling stuff.
-- Lance Reddick

#Jobs #Stuff #Journalism
I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory.
-- Lance Reddick

#Study #Grew Up #Grew
I mean, you know actors, we always want to do something else, something different.
-- Lance Reddick

#Mean #Different #Actors
As I got further into my career, as a character of color, if I was going to have the types of opportunities I felt I deserved, and continue to have them, I was going to have to start creating those opportunities for myself.
-- Lance Reddick

#Character #Opportunity #Color

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