Story Told Quotes by Winston Duke

I was a big comic, cartoon, animation nerd.

— Winston Duke

I grew up with comic books, and I'm from the Caribbean, so comic books were really a great interrogator of American culture for me.

— Winston Duke

I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.

— Winston Duke

We moved to Brooklyn when I was about 9 or 10, and from Brooklyn we moved to Rochester in New York. I went to…

— Winston Duke

I need to not be typecast as big, black, and dumb but be seen as an intelligent, witty, bold, and charismatic person.

— Winston Duke

My favorite play that I did was at Yale. It's called 'The Island.'

— Winston Duke

I feel I'm following my path. I'm living my truth, and my path is storytelling.

— Winston Duke

All I can tell you is 'Black Panther' sets up the MCU to go in a really wonderful new direction, sets up a new…

— Winston Duke

I grew up under the politics of my size and my skin. I grew up under the politics of the sound of my voice…

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The panther is sleek. The panther is sneaky. The panther is covert. Meanwhile, the gorilla will show up and bang on his chest and…

— Winston Duke

As a child, I would watch 'Frasier' a lot, and there was one episode with Derek Jacobi where he was playing this Shakespearean actor…

— Winston Duke

I am from Trinidad and Tobago, so I actually grew up in Tobago on the beach, just running around, playing, watching really creative people,…

— Winston Duke

There would always be scripts that came along that I turned down, like Gang Member #5 - roles that were just stereotypes.

— Winston Duke

I want all of the work that I do to have a social justice footprint attached. I want it to move the needle forward…

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I like to go into things, and I like to make the most bold choice to tell the particular story being told.

— Winston Duke