"To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break."
"When you graduate is when you start to find yourself looking at the information in the audition breakdown and it says tall black African - or African-American built such and such. And you start seeing these character descriptions and seeing that, oh, you're only going in for the ones that are described as your look."
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