"If I'm a character, it's a biographical movie. My character is as close to me as possible. As close to being myself as possible. So my character, J. Cole, is very close to Jermaine Cole."
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"I've often been accused by critics of being myself on-screen. But being oneself is more difficult than you'd suppose."
"When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself"
"I have nothing to hide. I enjoy being myself. I'm not going to change who I am just because it's Halloween."
"Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends."
"I think especially since going solo it's pretty clear that I'm completely being myself."
"I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru."