Quotes by Blair Underwood - Page 1

It's about strengthening the relationship and the bond of parent to child.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Relationship
Children
Parent
Strengthening
Ties
Bond
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To be still standing 20 years in this business is a great feeling, I can't even tell you.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Business
Feelings
Standing
Years
Great Feeling
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So it's a source of fun and a source of pride to have been a part of this little movie that could.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Pride
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Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Experience
Every Night
Night
People
Sat
Theater
Two
Amazing Experience
Houses
Packed
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I won't go into detail but this animated one, the story line is very cool and the kids seem to love it.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Kids
Animated
Children
Details
Detail
To Love
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Krush Groove was a movie at the time. That was my first break. I just got to New York. I was right out of college and I was happy to have a job.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Jobs
New York
College
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Its really a luck of the draw or fate or destiny, whatever you want to call it, but you dont know if youre going to resonate with people or not.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Destiny
Fate
People
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I love my kids so much. They teach me something every day. It always brings richness to my work, and even more in life. I feel lucky to be able to do both.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Kids
Able
Lucky
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All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Embarrassed
Made
Moving
Best Time Great
Great Time
Move On
Product
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I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Film
Lasts
Pipe
Years
Something Else
Teaches
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It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Movie
Interesting
Superhero
Very Interesting
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That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Different
Games
Grateful
Mediums
Spin
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Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Deals
Long
Play
Scripted
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It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Animated
Audio
Book
Discipline
Fatherhood
Nickelodeon
Past
Voice
Books
Guess
In The Past
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The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Talking
Voice
Wardrobe
Worry
Certain Way
Hat
Opposed
Worrying
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I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Business
Black
Catalyst
Superhero
Great Deal
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My Soul to Keep is the ultimate love story with a black man and a black woman. I call it the ultimate love story. It's about an immortal. We're shooting for this Fall and that's been a six year development right there.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Men
Fall
Immortal
Love Story
My Soul
Shooting
Ultimate
Years
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I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that's going on around the world right now, it's just good to go to a movie where you don't have to think too hard, just have a good time, and relax and be crazy.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Crazy
Great Things
Relax
Thinking
Time Good Great
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I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a sister so we'll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also if they look at the body of work, it is the bigger picture.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Sister
Bigger
Bigger Picture
Married
Picture
Work Me Body
Work Look Black
Pass
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It's really hard, when you have a heavy workload, because it just really pulls you out of your life. It's nice to have some balance. I get to work and enjoy that part of me, but then I have time to have a life and be with my kids.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Kids
Balance
Nice
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It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Big Screen
Character
Honored
Mary
Real
Video
Love Music Character
Blige
Jump
Music Video
Playing
Screen
Specific
Whenever
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The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Finance
Available
Broadway
Next Year
Real
Years
Estate
Everybody Else
In The End
Real Estate
Theaters
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Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Hands
Scripts
Unions
Use
Rules
Fully
Gotta
Holding
Union
Realized
Script
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I'd rather say no and have said no and do say no often. I walk away from projects if it doesn't feel right; if it's not the right team of people pulling in together or if the script isn't right. It could be a great idea but the script doesn't work.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Great Idea
Projects
Pulling
Script
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It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Character
Directors
Elements
Play
Right Person
Variables
Time Work Great
Work Time Great
Great Script
More Than Anything
Script
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When I doing dinner theater in high school, I was talking to a woman who had been in the business for a while and I said I want to act, that's all I want to do with my life and she said if you're serious then you need to hone every discipline you can.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Business
Dinner
Discipline
School
Talking
Theater
Life Business My Life
Hone
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You never know how things will last, if they will last, and how people will use them in the future. It was a fun movie for young people at the time in the 80s; but it struck a cord with people and it has lasted so I'm very proud of being a part of that.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Cord
Lasted
Struck
Young People
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I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Kids
Concepts
Father
Father And Son
Partnership
Son
Superhero
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Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Women
African American
Phenomenon
Sex
Successful
Women Sex City
Board
Different Kind
Episode
Pass
Resonate
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I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
New York
Business
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Longevity
Show Business
Thinking
Zone
Reveal
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My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Birthday
Smile
Birthday Party
Daddy
Nervous
Party
Son
Borrow
Eighth
Recently
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In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.
Blair Underwood / Film Actor
Home
Character
Female
Love You
Proven
Your Body
Sisters
Love Work Time
Jump
Pass
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