Andre Holland Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

[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!

I am also producing and writing a bunch.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

In '42, ' it's like the '40s where racial equality had come into the consciousness of a lot of people, whereas in the 1900s it was sort of a new thing.

I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for.

I've written a couple of scripts. Actually, a pilot. I'm not sure I'm allowed to say, but it's a comedy about three young men in New York City, one of whom may or may not be a romantic like me.