Sean Patrick Thomas Quotes

I'm the college educated, know-it-all barber who instigates a lot of the arguments in the shop.

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I feel like I would identify more with someone who's a little shady, because I'm more guarded than either Temple or Derek. To an extent, I would understand a villain, the guy who's standing on the corner, watching and plotting what he wants to do, as opposed to being everybody's hero. But it all interests me, bad guys and good guys.

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I was unemployed after finishing Save the Last Dance and I went out for this other role. It wasn't like, Okay, now I'm going to do tv. It was like, I have to pay my rent and my student loan, what can I do? I'm lucky that the show is doing well, so it looks like I've got this balanced plan.

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You don't usually get to see a guy that looks like me be on tv as a devout Christian, in all likelihood a virgin, and completely devoid of angst. So when the reviews were coming out before the pilot aired, saying it was Driving Miss Daisy and The Great White Hope, I thought it was nonsense, because it was like reading the first page of a book.

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I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!

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It's time for a brother to be Bond.

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