Ashton Sanders

'Moonlight' has changed my life externally but also internally... spiritually as well.

— Ashton Sanders

I was skinny and black and didn't play sports. And I was bullied.

— Ashton Sanders

I auditioned for 'Moonlight' without knowing anything. I went in the room, and I didn't know the lines as well as I…

— Ashton Sanders

Sometimes people are vulnerable. And that's fine.

— Ashton Sanders

I'd say my heart is more in independents, but sometimes these major films come along that are pretty good, you know?

— Ashton Sanders

There's so many strict ideas and rules, whether it's from religion or it's just generations and generations.

— Ashton Sanders

I do my own thing, and a lot of people don't. I just move my own way.

— Ashton Sanders

There's so much in American history that has been hidden and shunned.

— Ashton Sanders

I wasn't like the rest of the kids. I was an artist. Living in a black society, when you're raised around a…

— Ashton Sanders

I'm very much of an individual myself, and I do things sometimes that the next person probably won't, or wouldn't, do because…

— Ashton Sanders

A lot of these artists are out here don't stay true to why they started doing this in the first place.

— Ashton Sanders

We're raised to believe that black men have to be one specific way.

— Ashton Sanders

Anything that's outside the standard of the average black male is looked down upon. For me, I wasn't raised playing sports. I…

— Ashton Sanders

I think that's the most important part of doing this job, is learning different personality types. I mean, it's kind of like…

— Ashton Sanders

There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a…

— Ashton Sanders

It's my job as an artist and as an actor to use this platform to make people learn and grow, to change…

— Ashton Sanders

I like to have fun and be myself and express myself through how I dress.

— Ashton Sanders

I definitely wasn't the kid playing sports. I was super different.

— Ashton Sanders

I don't think things will lead me astray, as long as I'm tapped into myself.

— Ashton Sanders

I want to keep doing projects that speak for people within the community and tell different types of meaningful stories.

— Ashton Sanders

I bury things in the back of my mind I don't really want to deal with.

— Ashton Sanders

I grew up doing theatre, where I was jumping in and out of plays, year round.

— Ashton Sanders

I'm getting the training I need to progress as an actor. If something comes up and I have to drop, I'll drop.

— Ashton Sanders

We all have perceptions or boxes that we put each other in.

— Ashton Sanders

It's awesome that my job is to make people have reactions.

— Ashton Sanders