Boris Kodjoe Quotes

• You can be very independent, but admit to wanting somebody close to you and that’s what me and my wife have. We don’t need each other but we want to be with each other and I think it’s important to educate the kids with that.

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  Tags in Wife, Important

• Yet, that’s what studios do. If one thing works, they’ll keep doing it till it runs its course and people aren’t interested anymore.

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  Tags in Interested, Works

• Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn’t going to settle.

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  Topics in Children

  Tags in Wanted

• We’re very open and outspoken about our faith and our beliefs. We also talk about our doubts, our moments of insecurities. We talk about it all day, how we’re inspired by God. We recognize little miracles every day, and that’s how we’re raising our daughter.

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  Topics in God

  Tags in Faith

• We have relationships and know the exact outcome with that person because we don’t deal with ourselves and don’t deal with our issues and end up being attracted to the same person or the person is attracted to our energy.

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  Tags in Person, Same

• 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.

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  Topics in Future, Life

• 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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  Tags in Time, Place

• 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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  Tags in Study, Culture

• 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.

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  Tags in Someone, Woman

• 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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  Tags in Best, Face

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

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  Tags in Self, Artists

• 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.

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  Topics in Experience

  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.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Heard

• 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.

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  Topics in History

• 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.

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  Tags in Play, Away

• 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.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Faith

• 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 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.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Time

• 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 had to study acting to basically educate myself.

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  Tags in Study, Educate

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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