My family, they're not really that involved in what I do. Career-wise, they're very supportive. They're involved after the fact. I don't tell them anything usually until I'm finished filming it or mid-way through filming it. Mike Colter More Quotes by Mike Colter More Quotes From Mike Colter I met some people in college and I kept cracking away until someone pointed me in the right direction. Mike Colter mets college people My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams and she never really got a chance to do that. I feel like I'm following her dream in a way. She's proud of me for doing what I wanted to do, but at the same time, I'm kind of taking up where she left off. Mike Colter proud mother dream Things don't happen that fast in real life. Mike Colter real-life real happens Some people get divorced, they leave the person for a couple of years, then they remarry. Relationships are very, very strange. Mike Colter couple people years I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time. Mike Colter real art thinking When you're the lead and on most of the call sheets, some people have expectations of you and whether you like it or not, you kind of set the tone. Mike Colter tone expectations people Comic book heroes are an important part of our culture. Mike Colter important hero book I worked at a group home for a survival job years ago, and kids who have a rough home life have always tugged at my heart-strings. I also care a lot about animal cruelty. Mike Colter home heart jobs There's no book to figure out how not to become a victim of police brutality. Mike Colter become how police book Cops and criminals aren't that different. They just play by different sets of rules. And the lines get blurred. There's no such thing as 'right' and 'wrong.' There's always a grey area. There are always hypocrisies. Mike Colter rules always grey play Netflix shook it up, brought this whole new generation of people who said, 'I watch things when I want to watch, how I want to watch, where I want to watch, and that's something that no one's going to ever forget.' This has changed the game completely, and I think it's the tip of the iceberg. Mike Colter game think forget people I pretty much spend most of my time in the gym bulking up and staying fit and putting muscle on so I can play the part of Luke Cage, but I've never been a gym rat. Mike Colter never gym i-can time When you're acting, it's all about you and the person in front of you, and I think in life we forget to apply the same technique, and we get caught up in the panic of what we're trying to do - how overwhelmingly daunting the task of trying to become an actor is. Mike Colter think you forget life Ridley Scott was part of the production team on 'The Good Wife.' I auditioned on my iPhone, and it moved very quickly after that, as they thought I was right for the role, and pretty soon I was filming in Iceland for two months. Mike Colter thought good wife team Comic book heroes are an important part of our culture, so I think we're actually utilizing comic book heroes in a much more in-depth way than before. They have such potential, and I think we're maximizing the potential. Mike Colter think culture book way We all act differently in certain places. We don't want to admit it, but we're different where we grew up than we are with our family and than we are with the guys that we went to college with or our fraternity brothers. People just exist differently. It's small, subtle things, but different colors come out. That's all there is to it. Mike Colter colors family college people I think, in a career, you have several breaks that lead to a big break. Small things here and there all add up to cracking away at the dam. Then the dam breaks. Mike Colter small think you small-things Having worked on 'Halo: Nightfall' and gotten a taste for what 'Halo' has to offer, it definitely has me interested in picking up the games and getting familiarized more with the 'Halo' universe. Mike Colter more me universe taste As artists, we are so not in control most of the time of the content or the narrative of our characters, and sometimes writing takes a turn and it's not something we necessarily have control over. It's just a lot of random dumb luck, so when things click, you've just got to enjoy it. Mike Colter random you enjoy time I'm always game for creating a new character, and I liked the idea of putting something new into the 'Halo' universe. Mike Colter new game universe character
