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The injury that ended my time in football turned out to be serendipitous. I tore my Achilles while training for a pending tryout with the New York Giants, and when it snapped, so did my career, basically. That's what led me to gain the confidence to get into the acting world on my own terms.

~John David Washington

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I had a father who was active, present. There are people out there that never knew their fathers, didn't have their father's support. If I were to complain, that would be real sad. How dare I?

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If I can inspire one person to actually administer change, to want to inspire change, I will follow that person.

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I was ignorant before I did my research of a lot of African American police officers out there who are doing their job and doing it the right way.

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As my father started ascending in the business, people around me started to treat me different. Our lives changed. So that anxiety, that sort of resentment, I just funneled it through football.

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They were very supportive parents in all my endeavors. They have very different approaches on how they give advice.

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So many people - DPs, writers, and the assistants that go on to be directors and writers - come from the School of Spike Lee. He's almost set up an Institution of Spike Lee.

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My mother is very positive and encouraging and nurturing, as a mother should be. She's my auditioning partner. She says when it's not good enough; she says when I'm ready.

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I've failed a lot, you know, in football, and I've gone on a lot of auditions, been told no, been told I'm not right, so I know what failure feels like. It's about the work.

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In football, I learned about trust, handling failure, embracing discomfort, and rejection, which has helped with the auditions.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: July 28th, 1984

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