Quotes from Aldis Hodge

Everybody wants somebody to look up to that looks like them so they can truly believe in that reality for themselves.

Every job you do, somebody's looking at it. You're leaving an impression on somebody. What is going to be your footprint?

I think enslavement has evolved to what may seem appropriate to this day's generation. Modern enslavement is imprisonment.

With any good projects, I feel like the off-screen chemistry factors on-screen. It's great when you don't have to force it, but when it's not there, you better focus on getting there because, as we live with these characters, we spend more time with one another than we do our families at home.

When you do learn these things, when you understand what inclusion is, then we can accomplish greater things together.

For someone like MC Ren, who is still alive and I can go talk to, that's more of a niche challenge because I do have to match his energy, and I do have to pay homage to who he is as a person, but that just comes with research. And the difference there is I can do the research there right on the spot. I can just go ask him.

It's crazy: the first black man to actually step foot in America came as a free man, as an explorer, with the Spaniards. That's something for me - as a black American, it gives me a little bit of pride because we were free and respected somewhere else before slavery became what it was.

Every single step, although I couldn't see it, was a step forward and built to where I am now.

I was in public school until third or fourth grade, and after that, I was homeschooled. I was homeschooled until I was 14, and then when I was 14, I began attending college. Mom was not playing about that education.

I can literally count on one hand how many slave stories have gotten notoriety over the past few years.

My sister is raised to know her value and to know that she stands behind no man. You know, when she gets a husband, you stand side by side, equal partnership. You stand behind no one cause you have to lift each other up. You can't do that if you're 30 percent of the value in your relationship or the household.

You go home happy, you go to work happy, you make a better project because everybody loves it and loves each other.

We're still talking about women's rights. We can't be the greatest country in the world. I think once we lose that illusionary veil of thinking that we are, we can face the problems and really try to fix them.

I want to have a resume that is substantial enough to hold itself as respectful.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit acting for it. I realized with horology, I could learn at my own pace.