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Let gay people get married.
Nelsan Ellis / Film Actor
Get Married
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I'd always dabbled in acting.
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Fiona Shaw is a goddess to me.
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Goddess
Me
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Being different makes you beautiful.
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Being Different
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I had no intention of being an actor.
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Intention
No Intention
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Being different gives the world color.
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Being Different
Color
Different
World
Being
Gives
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Rihanna and makeup gets me into LaLa Land.
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Land
Makeup
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I can play a doctor, and I can play a thug.
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Thug
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I went from unknown to having no anonymity.
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Anonymity
Unknown
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My mom's side, they're southern Baptist Christian.
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Christian
Southern
Southern Baptist
Baptist
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At some point in my life, I wanted to be in a vampire movie.
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Vampire
Life My Life Point
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Alan Ball, he's good at challenging his actors, I'll say that.
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Alan
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But no one told me that when you're in the military, they own you.
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There are homophobic people in my family. They're deeply religious.
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Homophobic
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Anna Paquin is marvelous, and she brings so much experience to the table.
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Anna
Marvelous
Brings
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I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.
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Gravity
Scene
Alexander
Brings
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When you're in a position that you can comfortably give, you need to pay it forward.
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Comfortably
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My idea of horses is from when I grew up on a farm. They were big, and they were dumb.
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Dumb
Farm
Horses
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Although I can be a leading man, you wouldn't look at me and go, 'He's a leading man.'
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Man Look Me
Leading Man
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With 'True Blood,' you don't know what to expect. You don't know how wild it's gonna get.
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Blood
Know How
Knows
Wild
True Blood
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You go back to my town, it's like going back to the 1960s... just not a great place to grow up.
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Great Place
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Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.
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Address
Celebrities
Domestic
Epidemic
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'Interview with a Vampire' is my all-time favorite. I also loved 'An American Werewolf in London.'
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All Time
London
Vampire
Werewolf
Favorite
Interview
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When you act with phenomenal actors, it makes your job much easier because all you have to do is react.
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React
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I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.
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Ifs
Quiet
Wanted
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I am a vampire/werewolf and sci-fi fanatic. God is so good! I get to play in a series that has all that!
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Sci Fi
God Good I Am
Fanatic
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It's hard to get an education when teachers spend 70 percent of their time trying to discipline students.
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Discipline
Percent
Teachers
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I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.
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Quiet
Strange
Liked
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When you deal with Alan Ball, you're dealing with a person who is a genius in terms of how art imitates life.
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Alan
Dealing
Imitates
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When I wanted to become a serious actor, this girl told me, 'You should go to Juilliard.' And I said, 'Okay.'
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Juilliard
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Everybody kept saying, 'I just don't know how to sell you.' I'm odd. I don't think you can put a finger on me.
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Odd
Me Know How
Finger
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Boot camp was the first time I got a heavy dose of discipline. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Best
Boot Camp
Discipline
Dose
First Time
Heavy
Time Discipline Me
Thing
Boot
Camp
Best Time Me
First
Ever
Got
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I see a project, and I say I want to audition for it, and people let me audition for it. There's a lot to be grateful for.
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Be Grateful
Audition
Me People Grateful
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The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well.
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Hendrix
Ultimate
Life Music My Life
Drawn
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I think, in this country, anybody can do whatever they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else or violating the laws of society.
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Anybody Else
Hurting
Violating
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If you want to get married to a man, then get married to a man. If two women want to get married, they should get married. It's not hurting me.
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Women Man Me
Get Married
Hurting
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There were not many black students at Juilliard, unfortunately. So when you get there, you become very good friends, in particular, with the other black students.
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Juilliard
Unfortunately
Good Friends
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The arts are suffering amongst public schools, but also, minority theater companies are struggling, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression through the arts.
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Freedom Of Expression
Firmly
Minority
Public Schools
Struggling
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Whenever you have a character in which one of his defining qualities is his sexuality, it's always challenging, because you don't want to bring in someone who's going to play that in a phony way.
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Defining
Phony
Sexuality
Qualities
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I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.
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Empty
Fill
Worshipper
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When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.
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Art
Alabama
Chicago
Desire
Moved
School
Arts
Exist
Essentially
Valued
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The beautiful thing about this country is that I can be a Christian and feel free to do so. Or somebody cannot be a Christian and do whatever that entails. Or somebody can be a Christian and still be gay, and I support it.
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Beautiful Thing
Entails
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The sci-fi fans in America... they are die-hard. They will follow you to the ends of the Earth. Once they attach themselves to a show and believe in the show and love the characters, they're there forever, and they're unshakeable.
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Sci Fi
Attach
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I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.
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Juilliard
Rejected
Anyone Else
People Where More
Environments
People Talk More
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