Michael K. Williams famous quotes

I use my job to engage empathy and compassion for people society might stereotype or ostricise.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Jobs #Compassion #People

My goal as an actor, as an up-and-coming actor in this business is to stay consistent with the work and if you do good work, and stay focused on the work, writers and directors will pay attention.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Goal #Directors #Attention

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Justice #People #Criminals

I don't believe in typecasting. Just because all my characters may come from the other side of the tracks doesn't mean they are all the same. You don't stereotype people and generalize people, everyone's different.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Believe #Character #Mean

It's weird, sometimes I still see myself as just starting out. I tend to forget how much I've been doing, but in the beginning it is about the hustle, being out there and doing the work. Nothing is going to come to you, you have to get out there and do the work, and I've been doing that. But sometimes it's good to take a break and let these things air out. Reflect and take it in.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Air #Hustle #Forget

I don't consider myself a person of fashion because it's too sophisticated. My thing is I look at style like swagger. I like things that pull me, that I gravitate to.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Fashion #Style #Swagger

I don't dabble in politics too much. I'm really ignorant to the world of politics. I'm not that smart, I'm not that cunning, it's just too much smoke and mirrors for me. I just don't want to play that game.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Smart #Games #Play

My main goal, starting out as a young actor, was to carry the reins that Pac left off and to reach the depths as an actor that I know he would have reached had he still been here with us.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Goal #Actors #Depth

The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Achievement #Different #Knack

I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was nobody's gangster, I wasn't a thug, I wasn't selling drugs on the corner - I was scared of that.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Thug #Long #Drug

Writers will see your work and want to try you in different things but I think you have to stay true to your vehicle. We all have a vehicle. Whether it's a thug, or a school child or the babyface or the sex siren or the video vin, whatever it is ride that until the wheels fall off and eventually, if you build your foundation then you can branch off.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Sex #Children #Fall

No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Kids #Decision #Drug

My dream role is to portray someone like James Baldwin. I've always been a fan of his writing, and I feel like he's one of our unsung heroes. He's been pretty much forgotten, and I think he needs to be recognized. He had to go all the way to Europe to find recognition and acceptance, and I'd just like to bring him to the forefront.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Dream #Hero #Writing

I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Jobs #Focus #Kind

I came out the womb dancing.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Dancing #Womb

I haven't had a problem with being typecast, but if I was only getting one type of role, I wouldn't mind. What I'm worried about is not working.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Mind #Roles #Problem

I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Gangsters

I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Hurt #Liable

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Wire #Levels #Oppressed

Music is always a part of my characters' make-up.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Character #Music Is

The arts saved my life.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Art

The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Real #Wire #Events

You know, my childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word 'turbulent.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Childhood #Use #Colorful

You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Heart #Careers #Actors

I'm totally comfortable today with the success that Omar and 'The Wire' have brought me - living with that character, being recognized and remembered for that character.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Character #Wire #Today

I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.
-- Michael K. Williams

#East #Culture #Brooklyn

I got picked on a lot as a kid.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Kids

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. I am proud to join the ACLU in the fight to make mass incarceration a thing of the past.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Fighting #Past #People

Revenge is not a positive state of mind or energy to indulge your self in.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Revenge #Self #Mind

My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Character #Goal #Crafts

Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super cool.
-- Michael K. Williams

#President #Attention #United States

I know plenty of adults who act like teenagers.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Teenager #Adults #Plenty

All my characters have playlists.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Character #Playlists

As we say in the hood, I'm a stoop kid.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Kids #Hood

Cajun culture is dying.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Dying #Cajuns #Culture

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Choices #Brushes

I do happen to love Honey Nut Cheerios. I don't know if I want to walk down to the store in my pajamas for them. But I do love them.
-- Michael K. Williams

#Nuts #Want #Honey

CHILDHOOD IS THAT STATE WHICH ENDS THE MOMENT A PUDDLE IS FIRST VIEWED AS AN OBSTACLE INSTEAD OF AN OPPORTUNITY
-- Michael K. Williams

#Educational #Opportunity #Childhood