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- Myself
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For myself, if I'm trying to obtain a certain longevity in my career, to establish myself as a certain kind of star, I don't want that black exploitation image.
- Long
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I don't want to sound too carried away, but from what I've seen, 'Bingo Long' is going to be a big one. A classic.
- Look
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I was in the National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, on a scholarship. I was - still am - an artist. They were looking for an actor for 'Take a Giant Step,' and a producer liked my look and asked if I could act. I said, 'Yep!' Then I got into acting more or less just to make money for paints and canvases.
- Gale
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Right before 'Brian's Song' there was a period when I was very despondent, broke, depressed; my first marriage was on the rocks. The role of Gale Sayers had been cast with Lou Gossett, and then he hurt himself playing basketball. I was called in to read for the role. I was their last choice, and I knew it.
- Islands
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My mother's side of the family, they're from Montserrat in the Leeward Islands.
- Half
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Acting, I started when I was six and a half years-old, on Broadway with Kurt Weill.
- Life
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Jazz is very much a part of my life. I work with the Thelonious Monk Institute and do the artwork for their program every year.
- Paint
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Oh, I paint all the time.
- Broader
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I don't want to find myself ever locked into what people think I should think or do. In my art, and acting, I have a universal vision of things, an international vision. Bigger and broader and beyond. 'Bigger than life' is always on my mind.
- Love
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I love the Mexican muralists - like Rivera, Orozco - and the music of Walter Benton. They gave you a sense that reality was much more than life.
- Favorite
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I loved Marlon Brando: my favorite actor.
- Need
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Sometimes a true original doesn't need to change a thing.
- Matter
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No matter where I go, in this country or outside of this country, there are young people, and I'm always surprised that young people know about me and Colt 45.
- Romantic
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It was a time after 'Lady Sings the Blues' and 'Mahogany' and all those romantic movies: I became this romantic figure on the street in a very special way.
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