Andre Holland famous quotes

Now, perhaps more than ever, we need more and more examples of healing. We need to learn what it takes to heal.
-- Andre Holland

#Healing #Example #Needs

Politically, nowadays, as we know and feel, we are similarly underrepresented and not heard.
-- Andre Holland

#Heard #Feels #Knows

I just hope to work with great people, and do things that are challenging for me and that I can be proud of and not have to hide my face about. Those are my guidelines.
-- Andre Holland

#People #Challenges #Proud

You have to see through one's faults before you see their need.
-- Andre Holland

#Needs #Faults

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time, and each surgery is different.
-- Andre Holland

#Air #Different #Balls

I look at it [Moonlight] and young Alex Hibbert who plays the young Chiron gives such a beautiful performance. By the time you get to the third story there have been so many great performances that you forget this kid was brilliant. Everybody does their job. It really is a true ensemble. I wish that were a category at the Oscars.
-- Andre Holland

#Beautiful #Jobs #Kids

Historically it has been a touchy subject, especially in the south where I am from, people don't really talk about it. If they do talk about it, it is often talked about negatively. Nowadays in light of the Black Lives Matter movement I think people should pay attention to these lives also. I think the Black community will really embrace the film [Moonlight]. It is about us. It is real.
-- Andre Holland

#Real #Thinking #Light

It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed that it is. Everyone needs to see this movie.
-- Andre Holland

#Needs #Film #Zeitgeist

The way people are responding to [Moonlight movie] is something we never anticipated. We knew it was good but it is so diverse. The way people are reacting shows me that everyone sees themselves in it. That is groundbreaking. Similarly people come up some older people that it is not their story but are just crying in our arms after a screening. They know what it was like to be bullied or struggled with their own identity trying to figure out who they are. It has really caught people's imaginations.
-- Andre Holland

#People #Imagination #Identity

It [Moonlight movie] deals with drug addiction, drug dealing, and single parenthood, but they are three dimensional characters. You understand where they are from and what they are trying to do with their lives. It is not a stereotype that has been pasted onto somebody. These are stories that come from Barry's [ Jenkins] and Tarell's [Alvin McCraney] mothers.
-- Andre Holland

#Mother #Character #Addiction

I want to shift my career back to shows like The Knick. I prefer the classic drama structure.
-- Andre Holland

#Drama #Careers #Want

I am also producing and writing a bunch.
-- Andre Holland

#Writing #Bunch

Things maybe take longer usually when it comes to TV - especially network TV. There are usually multiple levels that you have to go through in terms of the casting director, the producers, the studio, the network, reading with other people.
-- Andre Holland

#Reading #People #Directors

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get back to it!
-- Andre Holland

#Past #Years #Focus

The policies enacted during segregation are still being felt in Birmingham.
-- Andre Holland

#Segregation #Birmingham #Policy

I personally feel like black people in America have contributed so much for so long, and haven't always gotten credit for it.
-- Andre Holland

#America #Long #People

I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.
-- Andre Holland

#Character #Play #Interesting

If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether it's in film, or whatever it is, man - as long as it's good, and on the level, I'm open to it.
-- Andre Holland

#Character #Men #Long

I went down and spoke to some of the people who lived in the neighborhood in Miami. At the end of the day I think my connection with Tarell [Alvin McCraney] is what helped me the most.
-- Andre Holland

#Thinking #People #The End Of The Day

I had a cheat sheet because I knew Tarell [Alvin McCraney]. His movie is largely autobiographical. I knew about certain events in his life and some of the people he talks about. I had visited the place where he lived many times so I understood innately what that was.
-- Andre Holland

#People #Events #Cheat

Barry Jenkins just cast the right people and framed things the right way.
-- Andre Holland

#People #Way #Framed

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.
-- Andre Holland

#Thinking #Imagination #Acting

I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.
-- Andre Holland

#Singers #Showers #Very Good

People do come up to me quite a lot. I get called all of it. I rarely get called my name; it's usually "Hey, Dr. Edwards!" or "Algernon." The most common thing is, "You're the black doctor on that show!" I'll take any of it, because I've definitely been called much worse things.
-- Andre Holland

#Doctors #Names #People

There are so many brilliant, trained actors of color in America. If you just think about it, every year in the spring Julliard and NYU and Yale and hundreds of schools across the country graduate classes of trained actors, and in those classes are actors of color. So to say that there aren't enough actors of color is factually inaccurate.
-- Andre Holland

#Country #Spring #School

All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me.
-- Andre Holland

#Drama #School #Skills

I think working on Shakespeare was a big part of my time at drama school. I'm so glad that I got to know Shakespeare and got a chance to play great parts in Shakespeare, because it really teaches you - or taught me, anyway - everything.
-- Andre Holland

#Drama #School #Thinking

Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.
-- Andre Holland

#Bigs #Takeaways

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential.
-- Andre Holland

#Goal #Trying

You turn up in the morning, you get through hair and make-up, and then you are on set working until it's time to go home. And I love that. Coming from the theater, you just turn up and you're ready for whatever happens. That energy really appeals to me.
-- Andre Holland

#Morning #Home #Hair

I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.
-- Andre Holland

#Artist #People #Want

People sometimes say, "What is your dream role?" I don't really have a dream role. I'll know it when I see it.
-- Andre Holland

#Dream #People #Roles

The horror genre is fun but I'm not sure it is quite right for me.
-- Andre Holland

#Fun #Genre Is #Horror Genre

I have worked with Tarell Alvin McCraney, who is the play Moonlight is based on. He's a company member at Steppenwolf. I have done a could of his plays here.
-- Andre Holland

#Play #Done #Moonlight

I have known Tarell Alvin McCraney for ten years but the involvement with Moonlight came more with Barry Jenkins, the director. He was a fan of the show I did called The Knick. He was also with Plan B Entertainment, who produced Selma. That is how I got involved.
-- Andre Holland

#Years #Directors #Fans

I wanted to work with Barry [ Jenkins]. I am a big fan of his from Medicine for Melancholy years ago. Tarrell [Alvin McCraney] is my favorite playwright. I will do anything he asks. The characters were so clearly drawn and three dimensional. It was an easy thing to say yes to.
-- Andre Holland

#Character #Years #Medicine

I want to see more young filmmakers, and specifically filmmakers who have a unique voice. I wouldn't mind seeing less of the attempt to force-feed people what others think they want, if that makes sense - whatever the formula is that some people seem to operate under, like needing a certain star, or needing a certain thing in order to get a piece made.
-- Andre Holland

#Stars #Thinking #Unique