I don't want to do action that doesn't mean anything. Everything I do I want to have character development and three-dimensional characters, fallible…

- Columbus Short

I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show…

- Columbus Short

Every movie I work with the costume designer to see what feels like the character, not what Columbus would wear but what is right for the character. …

- Columbus Short

First of all, God inspires me, where he's brought me, it blows my mind. To know that He brought me this far, it could not have been an accident, to g…

- Columbus Short

I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy …

- Columbus Short

The point of acting is to hide yourself and get lost in character. To play the same character in eighteen movies would be defeating the purpose I bel…

- Columbus Short

I don't know if it was a defining moment. I knew it as soon as I could comprehend the possibility of having a career. I knew very young I wanted to b…

- Columbus Short

I've learned that I can't do it all at once. So, you have to figure out your angle of attack. Coming in on the acting front, acting is a passion of m…

- Columbus Short

With films, you completely immerse yourself in a character, get into who they are, live it and then release it.

- Columbus Short