I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself … - Wentworth Miller

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The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

Wentworth Miller

I cannot in good conscience participate in a celebratory occasion hosted by a country where people like myself are being systematically denied their basic right to live and love openly.

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You have to love what you do, and you have to need it like you need air. And there's nothing else that would give me the same degree of satisfaction as acting, which is why I can't walk away from it.

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You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.

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A racial community provides not only a sense of identity, that luxury of looking into another's face and seeing yourself reflected back, but a sense of security and support.

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I'm hoping that what I am or what I'm not ethnically doesn't limit me in anyone else's eyes. I guarantee you it doesn't in mine.

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