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Hill Harper Quotes

In acting class, teachers talk about how the ‘givens’ of a situation help define a character.

– Hill Harper

The most impactful place that I’ve been to where I was just completely awestruck, happy, moved is Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is probably the most beautiful and romantic place in the world.

– Hill Harper

My first two books, ‘Letters to a Young Brother’ and ‘Letters to a Young Sister,’ were… distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

– Hill Harper

It’s important for someone like me – who’s known Obama for 20 years – to speak the truth. I know him to be a Christian man. I know him to be one of the greatest patriots.

– Hill Harper

My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute mentor for me.

– Hill Harper

We’re living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by single mothers. And their mothers so desperately want to connect with them, but I found, in talking with a lot of young men, that sometimes it’s difficult.

– Hill Harper

When it comes to African Americans and African American actors, Hollywood has always felt that if you can make us laugh, that’s fine, but we don’t need to see you do a ‘Schindler’s List,’ where there’s no jokes or music or comedic through-line.

– Hill Harper

We are human beings. We operate from wanting to be rewarded.

– Hill Harper

I’m not telling anyone, ‘Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.’

– Hill Harper

I would suggest that folks who have a platform of so-called celebrity, to the extent that they don’t use that platform, or if they just use it for their own self-aggrandizement, it is certainly fed in a way that it goes to waste.

– Hill Harper

‘The Conversation’ will hopefully touch on issues that will move people to want to strengthen communication and look to each other for solutions.

– Hill Harper

My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I’ve been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What’s beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me.

– Hill Harper

When I get stopped by the police, I keep my hands on the wheel. I’m not going to move.

– Hill Harper

Many of us are walking around living smaller lives than we’re meant to live. Don’t allow yourself to dream smaller than you were meant to dream.

– Hill Harper

When I was dealing with cancer, I was working on a book about finances. I realized that the same methodology that the doctors were using to cure me, you could use to cure your finances. Health and wealth are so linked, it’s amazing.

– Hill Harper

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices.

– Hill Harper

Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people – ‘fear’ for me stands for ‘false evidence appearing real.’ We create fantasy, and in certain ways that’s wonderful because it allows people to escape. But it can suck people into wanting to achieve something that isn’t real.

– Hill Harper

I’m not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.

– Hill Harper

You can’t have justice unless you have truth.

– Hill Harper

People always think about what prison is. What prison really is – it’s not a physical challenge, it’s mental.

– Hill Harper

We all have inherited so many types of fears, whether they’re race-based, culture-based, gender-based, age-based, family-based. And then we get comfortable with these fears.

– Hill Harper

Part of the problem in today’s world is that many men are taught that they have to ‘make it’ before they should even consider committed to a healthy partnership.

– Hill Harper

Intimacy can be about holding someone’s hand. It could be about stroking their hair.

– Hill Harper

When I’m acting, that’s all I’m doing. When I’m not acting, I’m not thinking about acting. If I’m writing, I’m just writing.

– Hill Harper

I believe that reality TV should be called ‘not reality’ TV; it’s fiction.

– Hill Harper

I’ve made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments.

– Hill Harper

On ‘CSI: NY,’ the audience knew I was a really good guy, and I caught the bad guy.

– Hill Harper

I’ve done romantic comedy, and I don’t get to flex that muscle often.

– Hill Harper

People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government.

– Hill Harper

If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don’t just say, ‘I’m not going to file.’ There are ways to deal with these things, but you must communicate with your creditors, whether it’s a credit card company or tax department.

– Hill Harper

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