Boris Kodjoe Quotes

• Don’t ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don’t, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Topics in Life, Past

  Tags in Happy

• As part of my relationship with my wife and my daughter, and we share everything and talk about everything.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wife, Talk

• Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Hurt

• Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Artists, Message

• I don’t care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Emotional, Care

• I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Study, Educate

• I just didn’t know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Knew

• I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn’t know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Time

• I know I can act and it doesn’t matter where you come from.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Matter, Act

• I love the fact that we, as black people, carry our faith with us. We share it and embrace it and love it and talk about it because we talk about everything else and why not that and that was the first impression that I had that really touched me.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Faith

• I’m in the booth and first of all, I’m from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Heard

• I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Play, Away

• Let’s say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Faith

• Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Artists

• Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It’s very exterior.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Face

• Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn’t need a man. I think that’s wrong. I think we all need someone.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Woman

• I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Topics in History

• The Southern Baptist Church is a specific culture in itself. So, I had to study, talk to people, watch tape and go to performances to see how Gospel artists move compared to secular artists.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Study, Culture

• The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Place

• There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole’s and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what’s been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Topics in Future, Life

Boris Kodjoe (25)

Birth:	8th March, 1973
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Actor, Model

About

Boris Kodjoe was born in Vienna, Austria. He is a German actor known for his roles as Jason in the 2000 film Love & Basketball, and the sports-courier agent Damon Carter on the Showtime drama series Soul Food. Kodjoe attended Virginia Commonwealth University on a tennis scholarship, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing in 1996. He appeared in the 2002 film Brown Sugar and starred in the short-lived sitcom Second Time Around with his Soul Food co-star Nicole Ari Parker, whom he eventually married. His most recent role was in the 2009 science fiction film Surrogates. In 2013, Kodjoe began starring in the BET comedy parody series Real Husbands of Hollywood.

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