My goal is to end mass incarceration and change the laws to stop locking up low-level, nonviolent drug charges. Stop charging drug addicts as criminals. Michael K. Williams More Quotes by Michael K. Williams More Quotes From Michael K. Williams The Wire' is very realistic and based on real events. Michael K. Williams wire events real The arts saved my life. Michael K. Williams saved art Music is always a part of my characters' make-up. Michael K. Williams music-is character I understand pain very well, so I look for that in a role. If the characters are well-written, don't tell nobody, but I'll do the damn thing for free. I'm serious. It's the writing. I love beautifully flawed characters. Michael K. Williams pain writing character Music's been part of my entire life. It's in my DNA. Michael K. Williams dna I'm good with all my roles, I've never had a bad role. Michael K. Williams roles I'm looking for diversity, all my characters may or may not be on the wrong side of the tracks. It doesn't mean that they're all the same. Michael K. Williams track character mean I am the epitome of the underdog. By societies standards I should have been dead a long time ago, and I was nobody's gangster, I wasn't a thug, I wasn't selling drugs on the corner - I was scared of that. Michael K. Williams thug should-have long My main goal, starting out as a young actor, was to carry the reins that Pac left off and to reach the depths as an actor that I know he would have reached had he still been here with us. Michael K. Williams starting-out depth goal I don't dabble in politics too much. I'm really ignorant to the world of politics. I'm not that smart, I'm not that cunning, it's just too much smoke and mirrors for me. I just don't want to play that game. Michael K. Williams smart mirrors play I don't consider myself a person of fashion because it's too sophisticated. My thing is I look at style like swagger. I like things that pull me, that I gravitate to. Michael K. Williams style fashion looks I don't believe in typecasting. Just because all my characters may come from the other side of the tracks doesn't mean they are all the same. You don't stereotype people and generalize people, everyone's different. Michael K. Williams character mean believe No one wakes up one day and decides they want to become a drug dealer or they want to be a stick-up kid. Those decisions are made after a series of events have happened in one's life. Michael K. Williams drug decision kids My childhood was pretty colorful; I like to use the word turbulent. But it was a great time to grow up, the '70s and '80s in Brooklyn, East Flatbush. It was culturally diverse: You had Italian culture, American culture, the Caribbean West Indian culture, the Hasidic Jewish culture. Everything was kind of like right there in your face. A lot of violence, you know, especially toward the '80s the neighborhood got really violent, but it made me who I am, it made me strong. Michael K. Williams growing-up italian strong My dancing came about as a way to be cool, actually. I knew early on that I was not a street kid. I didn't have the moxie, what it took to run the streets with the dudes that I grew up wanting to emulate. But I had a huge need to be accepted, so I found that I could be the party king. I did drugs really well, and I partied really well. Michael K. Williams party kings running I am a dark-skinned, nappy-headed, scar-faced dude from the streets of Brooklyn. I can't hide from being who I am. It's all over my face. Michael K. Williams brooklyn who-i-am dark My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper. Michael K. Williams paper jobs character You have to put your character to rest after x amount of years. Michael K. Williams amount character years For me, my past characters been hard, the way they died, being murdered, the sadness that goes around, the death. It's a very hard thing to do. Michael K. Williams sadness character past Ending a television character that you've been, especially someone like Omar Little, it hurts. For me, it's a huge thing. You feel like a part of you is gone. Michael K. Williams hurt gone character
