Taye Diggs Quotes (20 Quotes)

The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.

Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.

My concern is if Katrina were not to have happened, I'm wondering if people would realize the continuing relevance of pieces such as this. I really think a lot of white folks just get tired of being reminded that race is still an issue, because today it is so subtle and kind of masked.

As Capt. Richard Davenport, a cocky, self-assured lawyer, he is called upon to investigate the murder of a black sergeant amid resistance from the base's white commanding officers. Davenport has to stay one step ahead of the white people so he'll be seen as equal, ... and he has all this pressure from the African-American community because he's the one who broke through he represents the race.

I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

When I agreed to do the show, I thought it was a brilliant premise, ... but it turned out to be a fixer-upper. By the end, I was beat down. It takes a lot of energy fixing and upping.

I'm always up for going back to the stage.

It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.

I would love for film to go back to those days where you had to be able to do everything just to get by.

The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.

All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs.

Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.

You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.

Just recently white people are starting to notice who I am. In the black community of actors, that's the gauge of how big you are, your real crossover appeal.

This winning drama is being delivered at Second Stage, which revived A Soldier's Play ... They'll still hate you

On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

There's no white person I know that can say that they haven't been through what any of these Black characters are going through.

But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.

It has been refreshing that the last four roles that I've done have not been so blatantly sexual with me being put on some imaginary pedestal.