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Actor Quote by Bill Duke

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“What I really plan to do is take the best scripts I get and consider them seriously. I can actually work as an actor and prepare a film as a director.”

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It's assumed that light-skinned women have no problems or issues, but they are judged before you know who they are.

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I'm a very private person, not much of a party person. That's how I keep my sanity.

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Do I see people working harder than me? I can't imagine that but if I do it inspires me to work harder.

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I could direct a very decent Holocaust film, but I don't have the same experience as a young boy who was rocked to sleep…

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My father worked three jobs, my mother worked two, seven days a week sometimes. And they wouldn't take welfare or social assistance, they were…

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I enjoyed 'Predator' a lot, and also 'Get Rich and Die Tryin'.' I really enjoyed that role and playing the O.G.

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I come up in a segregated 1943 atmosphere of segregation.

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I've been very selfish and the women in my life have hated that because of my work ethic. I try not to bring my…

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By healing the internal issues that we can heal as a people, our children don't have to suffer the same agony and pain that…

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I don't say, 'Francis Ford Coppola, what a wonderful Italian-American director.' I judge him based on his film, his craft, his art. That's the…

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Well, in the '80s and '70s, with the exception of Sidney Poitier and Brock Peters, maybe Ivan Dixon, if you were as big and…

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I'm an American, but being a black American, my experience is a particular one, my struggles have been particular.

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