A biography for Michael B. Jordanhasn’t been written yet.
“I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years.”
“I love Newark, but it was easy to get caught up in the wrong situation. You know, when you come from very humble beginnings, you always have that fear that everything could go away at any moment.”
“I love telling the experience of a black male in America, but modern, not always having to go back to a period piece to remind people where we come from. It's more a modern sense of where we are today and where we want to go in the future. So I try to choose projects somewhere around that space.”
“I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I'm sorry, I don't rep California.”
“I come from North New Jersey, where nothing's promised.”
“I like the old '90s music.”
“I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.”
“I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.”
“That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.”
“I was still playing basketball and baseball - everything else I wanted to do as a kid. Modeling was a chance to get out of school early and go into the city.”
“Definitely, as I get older and my taste buds change, I want to do different things. I'm not ready for directing yet, you know, maybe when I get my big boy voice; I don't have that yet, but right now definitely producing for sure.”
“Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.”
“I'm a comic book fan.”
“I watch films that inspire me and make me want to go to work the next morning, that really push you and motivate you. So in that aspect, I look up to a lot of people.”
“I've said no to a lot of things because they didn't make me a leading man. They put me in a category I wasn't interested in.”
“Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.”
“I wanted to start creating opportunities for actors out there that weren't so cut-and-dried... My ultimate goal with Outlier is to give these young creatives and young creative hustlers the opportunity to leave their fingerprint on the world.”
“For me, I really enjoy telling stories and helping the younger generation, young actors to have the same opportunity I did.”
“Doing ensembles and shows is one thing, but being able to front a feature is totally different. You can be a great actor, and supertalented, but there's something about carrying a feature that's unique.”
“Being named Michael Jordan - I think growing up playing sports and having a name like Michael Jordan - and I was extremely competitive - I used to get teased a lot. But it made me want to strive for greatness and be able to compete at whatever I decided to do.”