Acting is the easiest money you'll ever make in your life, and directing is probably the hardest money.
And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.
Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.
First of all, you look at Rocky films now, and if that isn't a cartoon series there isn't any cartoon series. I mean there's no way anybody is going to take that amount of punishment in fifteen rounds.
For me, I have to love it and feel something for it because you're going to be stuck with it for two years, and if you don't love it it's going to look like that on screen.
I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school.
I don't even know if I can call myself a director.
I had a great crew, a wonderful director of photography in Jack Green, who had done a lot of Clint Eastwood's films, so he's a great third eye.
I just don't want to do a movie because it paid me a lot of money.
I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director.
I wasn't a ranting, raving director.
I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries.
I've know Halle a long time, I knew Halle when she first started and I've watched her grow, and she's turned into a real pro now.
I've walked around fighters, we had boxing gyms in my community just like you have basketball and baseball gyms, and football fields, we had boxing gyms. There was nothing like understanding the science of boxing, because it is a science, it looks brutal but you have to think in there.
Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.
The thing is, the studio then forget that you're an actor and that you can do other things, and so since they pay you for that, they don't want you to do anything else.
This directing thing just sort of fell my way and landed in my lap.
What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.
You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.
Charles had a two scene cameo in the movie Menace II Society.
Charles film debut was in 1986, movie 'No Mercy'.
After seven and half years in prison Charles was paroled in 1976.
While in prison Charles, was stabbed in the neck by a fellow inmate with an icepick.
One of Charles hobbies is boxing.
Charles, sister's name is Barbara.
Charles was nominated for a Tony Award for his portrayal in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
Charles was nominated for a Tony Award in 1990, for his role in the movie Piano Lesson.
Charles's astrological sign is Aquarius.
Charles did a two year college course while in prison.
His nickname is Roc.
He served seven and a half years in prison for stabbing a man during a street fight.
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