Author Profile
Corey Hawkins
1988 • American • Actor
60
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Showing 60 quotesI'll just put it this way: I've struggled enough as a working actor - and, most of the times, a not working actor - to know that anytime you are working is a blessing.— Corey Hawkins
I feel immensely blessed - not just that I'm working, but that I'm working on projects that I really care about and like. I've always been that way.— Corey Hawkins
I had my foot in both worlds. I knew what I didn't want, and so I had to make a choice, just like N.W.A. made choices.— Corey Hawkins
My mother's a police officer, so there was only so much trouble I could get myself into. But my father grew up on the other side.— Corey Hawkins
It's also crazy how Shakespeare has that cadence, and it's about locking into the jazz of the language, just like locking into the rhythm in N.W.A's lyrics.— Corey Hawkins
The tension between the Capulets and the Montagues is like a gang rivalry, and that has everything to do with Compton.— Corey Hawkins
I got to pick the mind of a genius, and I realized why he was a genius. And I realized the man behind the veil or whatever you want to call it. Do you know what I mean? I got to see what makes Dr. Dre Dr. Dre, and I got to interpret that. It's hard to put it into words, so the only thing I know how to do is put it on the screen.— Corey Hawkins
It's always weird when it comes to awards and awards season because how can you say that this performance is better than this performance? Art is so subjective.— Corey Hawkins
I grew up singing, and I played on Broadway to thousands of people, you know what I mean?— Corey Hawkins
The only thing that I know how to do as an actor, as a trained actor, is you can't villainize the character you're playing. Whether it's a fictional character or a real character. Because then you operate from that sort of negative point of view, and you can't humanize him.— Corey Hawkins
You read things, and they come to you, and if they speak to you at the moment and there's a voice in you that says, 'I don't know, that's risky,' or 'That's challenging,' then do it. Run at it and tackle it. And if it's bad, it's bad. You're gonna get over it.— Corey Hawkins