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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
- Omari Hardwick
#Know
#Me
#Meat
#People
#Writing
If reality shows are so popular, that means their viewers are screaming for more realness.
- Omari Hardwick
#Means
#More
#Reality Shows
#Reality
I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
- Omari Hardwick
#Four
#Sister
#Three
#Up
#Us
I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.
- Omari Hardwick
#Father
#Know
#Lawyer
#Poet
#Smart
People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'
- Omari Hardwick
#Create
#Mentality
#More
#Need
#People
As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
- Omari Hardwick
#Born
#Color
#Important
#Positive
#Skin
A powerful person is equally cool with their flaws and things that aren't powerful about them at all.
- Omari Hardwick
#Cool
#Flaws
#Person
#Powerful
#Things
Playing a cop goes a long way. I have a lot of friends who are working as actors, and as soon as I started playing military characters or cops, and not the actual criminal that we're chasing on this show, they all said, 'You actually can have a career now.'
- Omari Hardwick
#Career
#Long Way
#Long
#Now
#Way
Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
- Omari Hardwick
#Age
#Down
#Football
#Know
#Teammate
The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.
- Omari Hardwick
#Done
#Film
#Good
#Happy
#Way
My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
- Omari Hardwick
#Acting
#Dad
#Mom
#Together
#World
If you remain open to great directors who look like you, who know what they're doing and are making impactful films that are destroying these 'blockbuster films,' you can do okay, and everybody can get more of a piece of the pie. But you've got to be open and brave.
- Omari Hardwick
#Brave
#Doing
#Great
#Look
#Okay
I was definitely a Daddy's boy.
- Omari Hardwick
#Boy
#Daddy
#Definitely
'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
- Omari Hardwick
#Forget
#Good
#Power
#Show
#Sometimes
I know that Donald Trump is a smart man.
- Omari Hardwick
#Know
#Man
#Smart Man
#Smart
#Trump
I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.
- Omari Hardwick
#Football
#Going
#Play
#University
Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
- Omari Hardwick
#College
#Down
#Football
#New
#Religion
When it's all said and done, I am secure enough with my manhood to say to the world, 'I am a male actor, and its okay for me to play a gay man.'
- Omari Hardwick
#Gay
#I Am
#Man
#Me
#World
I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon.
- Omari Hardwick
#Journey
#My Journey
#Race
#Say
#Turtle
I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.
- Omari Hardwick
#Easy
#Poetry
#Riding
#Stage
#Trying
Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
- Omari Hardwick
#Car
#Like
#Make
#Outfit
#Shoes
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