With his athletic build, heavy-lidded expressive eyes and attractive good looks, Omar Epps frequently was... (Learn more)
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"I look at the thugs and drug dealers from the old neighborhood as having the same mentality as these Hollywood people. You deal with bigger money out here, but either way, it's like swimming in a shark tank." --Epps on how his Brooklyn, New York upbringing has prepared him for Hollywood, quoted in US, October 1996
"I'm going to be the first black president of the United States. If Reagan can do it, I know I can." --Epps quoted in NEWSDAY, April 4, 1999
"I'm the type of person who just wants to fulfill my potential, no matter what it might be."---Epps to TV Guide, May 28, 2007.
Epps on Hollywood's politics and prejudices: "Any film with a voice of passion, they're not going to want it to come. No disrespect to any of these people, but I feel that they might give Denzel [Washington] an Academy Award for playing a slave, whereas when he's playing the most powerful leader from any background--Malcolm X--he doesn't even get a nomination." --to TIME OUT NEW YORK, June 12-19, 1996
Every film is a success to me once you get through the process. You meet great people and you get inspired and you each push eachother to the limit and you try to grow and progress as an artist, so it's beautiful to work with my peers."---Epps to Venice Magazine February 2004
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