Morris Chestnut Quotes
"I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Act, Actor)
"I'm just happy to be working consistently."
- Morris Chestnut
"I've been in a situation where I was after the money."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Money)
"I would like more challenging roles. I definitely would like to something that's more challenging."
- Morris Chestnut
"Nah, I'm not a prima donna, but I just don't like being cold and wet."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Being)
"I'm not going to take my shirt off in every movie."
- Morris Chestnut
"Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Women, Romance, Action)
"Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story."
- Morris Chestnut
"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."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Opportunity, Actors, Want)
"It's not always about the money."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Money)
"At one point, people thought that Eddie Murphy would only reach one sector of the audience, but now everyone sees everything Eddie Murphy does."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Thought, People, Now)
"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."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Day, Machine, Rain)
"I want viewers to relate to me on a different level, not just a sexual level."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Want)
"And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Men, Feelings, Being, Perspective, Talking)
"I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Friend, Character, Play)
"I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: People, Chance, Confidence, Film)
"I enjoy what I do, but it's more challenging than people think."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: People)
"I hate being cold and I hate being wet and around 80% percent of this film I was cold and another 60% I was cold and wet, so it wasn't the best shoot for me."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Being, Film, Hate)
"I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Movies, Quality, People, Acting, Actor, Personality, Talk, Want)
"I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Love, Action)
"I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Want)
"A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Men, Women, Perspective)
"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."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Film, Fun, Horror)
"There are a lot of people in this business that don't work consistently."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Business, Work, People)
"To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Work)
"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
(Related: Food, Movies, People, Clothes)
"You have to be insane to direct."
- Morris Chestnut
"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."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Movies, Clothes, Day, Trying, Water)
"You can become really pigeon-holed in this industry."
- Morris Chestnut
"When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: People, Comedy, Romantic, Worry)
"This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Reality, Sense)
"Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: Work, People, Body, Career)
"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."
- Morris Chestnut
(Related: People, Successful, Careers, Reality, Sense)