Andre Holland

All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing…

— Andre Holland

I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.

— Andre Holland

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

Everybody gathered at my Aunt Hannah's house, and we sat around and talked, ate, drank and told lies. That's what people do,…

— Andre Holland

I think working on Shakespeare was a big part of my time at drama school. I'm so glad that I got to…

— Andre Holland

[Theater] has always been a big focus. I have been away from it for the past few years. I want to get…

— Andre Holland

The way people are responding to [Moonlight movie] is something we never anticipated. We knew it was good but it is so…

— Andre Holland

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

— Andre Holland

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

— Andre Holland

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

— Andre Holland

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

— Andre Holland

When you live in an environment where you aren't allowed to be fully who you are, you aren't taken seriously, and you…

— Andre Holland

In '42,' it's like the '40s where racial equality had come into the consciousness of a lot of people, whereas in the…

— Andre Holland

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what…

— Andre Holland

Whenever I have a play or opening or anything going on in my career, my parents always come up and see it.

— Andre Holland

It [Moonlight movie] deals with drug addiction, drug dealing, and single parenthood, but they are three dimensional characters. You understand where they…

— Andre Holland

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

— Andre Holland

My goal has always been to try to live up to every ounce of my potential. For me, that means working with…

— Andre Holland

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

— Andre Holland

The surgeries were the hardest scenes for me because it's literally balancing so many balls in the air, at the same time,…

— Andre Holland

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

— Andre Holland

I grew up in Alabama in a very small town and didn't have access to the finest of anything, really. But my…

— Andre Holland

'The Knick' is set in New York during the 1990s, and it takes place around a hospital called The Knickerbocker. It's about…

— Andre Holland

I've lost friends over texting because I'm so bad at it.

— Andre Holland

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…

— Andre Holland