Omari Hardwick

“I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring.”

“As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male...”

“I know that Donald Trump is a smart man.”

“I think I'm an athlete who's trained as an actor, and when you smash it all together, you get whatever Omari is doing as a performer right now.”

“Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense tha...”

“I would say, as loving as I am... I am definitely an extremely temperamental man who has a very large temper.”

“I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.”

“I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.”

“I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon.”

“You don't go to church and tell the choir how to sing if you're a visitor.”

“I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.”

“I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.”