Best Morris Chestnut Quotes & Sayings

I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die. — Morris Chestnut

I'm not going to take my shirt off in every movie. — Morris Chestnut

I'm just happy to be working consistently. — Morris Chestnut

I do feel that movies and music do have the power to slightly influence a person's decision. I believe that if violence is not in a person, then the film is not going to encourage them [people]. — Morris Chestnut

You have to be insane to direct. — Morris Chestnut

I'm a huge fan of Morris Chestnut. I grew up with Morris, and I know him personally. — Tia Mowry

Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action. — Morris Chestnut

A lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or have a huge personality to become a star. But I think that if you just focus on the craft, you'll have a better chance at longevity. — Morris Chestnut

My grown man crush is Morris Chestnut. He's just timeless! — Zendaya

To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off. — Morris Chestnut

Sometimes the stereotypes that a lot of people have are of black men in jail or who don't take care of their kids, so I think it's always important to have that. — Morris Chestnut

When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you. — Morris Chestnut

I want viewers to relate to me on a different level, not just a sexual level. — Morris Chestnut

I think the best type of action movie combines a love story with the action. — Morris Chestnut

I would like more challenging roles. I definitely would like to something that's more challenging. — Morris Chestnut

I like to eat sweets. When I go to a restaurant, I'll read the dessert menu before I even look at the entrees. — Morris Chestnut

I try to keep in shape and I always have to check myself. Whenever I binge eat, sweets are the one temptation. — Morris Chestnut

For me it's really tough because you have to go to that place where you really, really don't want to go to or revisit. After the first movie, when I was crying at the altar, whenever I would think about it, I would get chills for months after the first "Best Man" because I had to go to that place. And then, here we are with this one, and we are going to that place again. It's just extremely emotional to just have to keep revisiting it, but it can also be therapeutic. — Morris Chestnut

I hate being cold and I hate being wet and around 80% percent of this film I was cold and another 60% I was cold and wet, so it wasn't the best shoot for me. — Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes. — Morris Chestnut

At one point, people thought that Eddie Murphy would only reach one sector of the audience, but now everyone sees everything Eddie Murphy does. — Morris Chestnut

You can become really pigeon-holed in this industry. — Morris Chestnut

I've been in a situation where I was after the money. — Morris Chestnut

There are a lot of people in this business that don't work consistently. — Morris Chestnut

This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is. — Morris Chestnut

And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay. — Morris Chestnut

One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages. — Morris Chestnut

Nah, I'm not a prima donna, but I just don't like being cold and wet. — Morris Chestnut

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily. — Morris Chestnut

A lot of times, women don't get the male perspective in regards to a relationship, what men go through when they're not really dealing well. — Morris Chestnut

Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives. — Morris Chestnut

You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try. — Morris Chestnut

I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk. — Morris Chestnut

I would never want any of my kids to go into this industry; not until they are old enough to understand and if this is something that they really want to do. — Morris Chestnut

When people are courting, many of them think that when they get married, that's it, and everything will be on Easy Street. But you really have to work even harder once you're married, because the challenges are that much greater. — Morris Chestnut

This film is what it is. It's a campy thriller horror movie where you go and have fun. With these types of films, you can't take it too seriously. They are what they are. — Morris Chestnut

I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that. — Morris Chestnut

I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film. — Morris Chestnut