34 Chadwick Boseman Quotes to Inspire Your Day

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Words can change how we think and feel. Chadwick Boseman quotes have touched millions of hearts around the world. His words give us strength and hope when life feels hard.

Chadwick Boseman was a famous actor who played Black Panther in Marvel movies. Besides his famous roles in Marvel, he also starred in many great movies, such as "42," "Get On Up," and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." He worked hard and inspired many people through his acting and his life. And from Chadwick Boseman quotes, we can learn many important lessons about courage, dreams, and being strong.

In this article, we have gathered some of the most powerful Chadwick Boseman quotes from various sources, Tuesday (27/1/2026). These words can motivate you in your daily life and help you face challenges. Let's dive in!

1. "People don't want to experience change; they just want to wake up, and it's different."

2. "The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people."

3. "You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure."

4. "I like ambiguity because you may be the villain in someone else's story and the hero in your own, and I think very often, African-American characters are either one thing or the other. You shouldn't have to be perfectly good or perfectly bad. You don't even have to be magical."

5. "Colonialism is the cousin of slavery."

6. "I would go through these cycles of being really, really focused on work, and not being around anyone, to being around everyone. And that could be distracting. It was nothing or everything."

7. "I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people."

8. "I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface."

9. "There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling. But interestingly enough, some of my best writing came when I was poor and hungry - living off water and oatmeal, mind clear."

10. “When you are deciding on next steps, next jobs, next careers, further education, you should rather find purpose than a job or a career.”

11. “Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history.”

12. "We live in a world where people can ridicule you at the push of the button. They can question you at the push of a button."

13. “Right now I urge you in your breath, in your eyes, in your consciousness, invest in the importance of this moment and cherish it… So savor the taste of your triumphs today. Don’t just swallow the moment whole without digesting what has actually happened here. Look down over what you conquered and appreciate what God has brought you through.”

14. “That shows that when you pray for something, it can actually happen. And that is powerful!”

15. “Thank you God for not just winning. Thank you God for the trials and tribulations that you allow us to go through so we can appreciate these moments. So we can appreciate the joy that comes from winning.”

16. “We know what it’s like to be told there’s not a screen for you to be featured on, a stage for you to be featured on. We know what it’s like to be the tail, but not the head. We know what it’s like to be beneath, but not above. And that is what we went to work with every day. Because we knew not that we would be around during awards season or that it would make a billion dollars, but we knew that we had something special that we wanted to give the world—that we could be full human beings in the roles that we were playing. That we could create a world that exemplified a world that we wanted to see.”

1. "When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself."

2. "The projects that I end up doing, that I want to be involved with in any way, have always been projects that will be impactful, for the most part, to my people - to black people."

3. "When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe."

4. "Even after I became involved in theater and involved in TV and film, I had this sort of idea that Hollywood was off limits. There was something about L.A., the mystique of it and fear of it."

5. "Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they're not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier."

6. "Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show."

7. "I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles."

8. "Actors can have a fair amount of hate for each other, so when another actor says, 'You did your thing,' or 'That was inspiring,' you can't really ask for more than that."

9. "When you're doing a character, you want to know the full landscape. You want to know them spiritually, mentally and physically."

10. "People have said, 'You don't need to do any more biopics. You don't need to play any more real people.' I don't agree with that."

11. "I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things."

12. "One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, 'Don't judge the character.'"

13. "I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, 'Do not seek approval from the audience.' People don't realize that. You can't do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth."

14. "Sometimes when you're acting, you only need a little bit of something to sort of channel or, you know, transport into a place."

15. "As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process."

16. "I try to look at every role the same way, regardless of whether the character is real or the character is a fantasy. I always start from myself, because you have to know yourself first."

17. "Once you start getting big roles as an actor, everything pays. So what are you making decisions on? It's about the director or the script or whatever. But before you reach that point, you're taking jobs with, say, a theater company, in spite of the fact that it's not paying your bills."

18. "You're not free unless you can show the good and the bad, all sides of them. So to me, when I play a character, it's important that I can show every aspect of them."