Words matter. These are the best Michael Jai White Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t know when the last time I had fried chicken was. Must’ve been years. As soon as I think about eating it, I think about the stomach ache I’d get.
When I do an action thing, it speaks louder than the things that I’ve done that are dramatic and comedy. Actually, if you look at my resume, I have just as much comedic things as dramas, and I have far less action things than all of the other things, but I’m kind of defined as an action person.
In reality, there are very few villains who view themselves as villains. They just have a certain agenda at a certain time.
I love the ’70s. I think the ’70s had the best music and the best movies.
When I was young, I had a favorite movie star. One day, I saw one of his movies, and it was bad, and he was bad in it. I could tell he didn’t care and only did it for the money. I felt betrayed. I never watched another one of his movies again.
There’s people saying that ‘Jackie Brown’ was a blaxploitation movie, when there’s nothing at all blaxploitation about it other than Pam Grier being in it.
I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the positives. I feel sorry for the people who live their lives in the negative default setting because they filter out what’s good, and that’s no way to live.
Directing was a natural thing for me. Actually, it was far less stressful directing than being the lead actor. I was able to have my input in all aspects of it.
I go to gyms quite a bit, martial arts gyms, MMA gyms. I try to train with the best people, with who’s who in the martial arts, just to keep myself sharp.
Just by nature, I think in comedy. I think in sketches and what have you. In every drama or action movie I’ve been in, I have to make a concerted effort not to turn it into a comedy. Every shot, before action is called and after cut is called, I’m usually in some goofy head space. It feels natural to me.
That’s something a lot of folks don’t know about me – I’m pretty darn funny.
There’s all kinds of depictions of black men. You have the Denzel Washingtons and the Will Smiths; that’s wonderful, but that doesn’t represent everyone. There’s a Russell Crowe… well, you know, there’s a black Russell Crowe.
There’s a way that white people and black people spoke in the ’70s that is nothing like how they speak now. They spoke from a soul, actually. There’s a singsongy way of walking and talking that’s just different now.
I’ve sold scripts in the past, and also a TV pilot that didn’t get made, to Fox. But yeah, I’ve been writing for a while.
The first movie I ever saw was a blaxploitation movie. It was called ‘Monkey Hustle.’ Like I said, just listen to the name. That’s a blaxploitation movie. It had these incredible, bigger-than-life images of people who looked like I did. Or who looked like I wanted to look like.
I was pretty much a child of ‘Monty Python.’ I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.
Most people say I look mean, and because I play so many tough roles and because of my size and my martial arts background, they think I am, but I’m really not.
I don’t cook. I think they named the ‘Mike’-rowave after me.
