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.

  Morris Chestnut

• You have to be insane to direct.

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• 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.

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• You can become really pigeon-holed in this industry.

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

  Morris Chestnut

• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• It’s not always about the money.

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• 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.

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

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

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• I’m just happy to be working consistently.

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Birth:	1st January, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

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