Morris Chestnut Quotes

You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.

You have to be insane to direct.

You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you’re trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try.

You can become really pigeon-holed in this industry.

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.

Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that’s why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.

To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don’t require you just to take your shirt off.

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is.

This film is what it is. It’s a campy thriller horror movie where you go and have fun. With these types of films, you can’t take it too seriously. They are what they are.

There are a lot of people in this business that don’t work consistently.

Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.

Showtime has given new, young filmmakers – black, white, across the board – an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

Oh yeah, I’m a huge romance fan. And some women like action.

Nah, I’m not a prima donna, but I just don’t like being cold and wet.

It’s not always about the money.

It’s hard when you see a scene where it’s raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.

I’ve been in a situation where I was after the money.

I’m not going to take my shirt off in every movie.