David Oyelowo

I love tennis, love it!

— David Oyelowo

I don't have a tailor, but I do love clothes.

— David Oyelowo

I hear God as an audible voice.

— David Oyelowo

My ambition is to keep the audience guessing... that is my path to a long career.

— David Oyelowo

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

— David Oyelowo

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

— David Oyelowo

I like to think of myself as a physical actor.

— David Oyelowo

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

— David Oyelowo

One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.

— David Oyelowo

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

— David Oyelowo

There's a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it's a very valuable thing.

— David Oyelowo

I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from…

— David Oyelowo

Africa is trying to find its way back to a sense of itself, when much of that was lost through colonization.

— David Oyelowo

Asher means 'happy and blessed' which embodies my eldest. Caleb means 'stubborn and tenacious dog' and I can't even tell you how…

— David Oyelowo

I think the notion that we are different just because of skin color, and that we should be kept apart or kept…

— David Oyelowo

I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I'm putting out in the world knowing that one day…

— David Oyelowo

Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.

— David Oyelowo

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

— David Oyelowo

I'm one of a generation brought up on television whose acting is more 'naturalistic', whereas with some of the older generation it's…

— David Oyelowo

I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It's such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough.…

— David Oyelowo

We're not served by only knowing our finest hours through film or media, or in the history that we are taught. I…

— David Oyelowo

That's what's so satisfying about acting. You can come as prepared as you like, but there's no accounting for what's going to…

— David Oyelowo

I never, ever do a film and just kind of move on. I think of them as children of mine, and you…

— David Oyelowo

Getting to do what I think was my fifth BBC drama with Nikki Amuka-Bird - we've done 'Shoot The Messenger,' 'Five Days,'…

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I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and…

— David Oyelowo

I know for a fact the reason I'm an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw…

— David Oyelowo

I basically enjoy doing films that are about something, that have complex roles that I can sink my teeth into. Basically, I…

— David Oyelowo

I truly believe slavery is why, as a by-product, we still have a disproportionate amount of black men incarcerated in the USA.…

— David Oyelowo

There is still a fundamental misunderstanding, when it comes to observing that when someone is black and someone is white, then that…

— David Oyelowo

I think what a lot of people don't realize is how much being the leader of this movement weighed upon him. After…

— David Oyelowo

When you reflect upon the significance of Dr. King to this nation, it's criminal that he hasn't had a feature film that…

— David Oyelowo

The thing that would probably surprise most people was that Dr. Martin Luther King was a very reluctant leader. He felt very…

— David Oyelowo

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.

— David Oyelowo

Don't send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend; I just won't do that.

— David Oyelowo

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.

— David Oyelowo

When I am playing a role far away from me with an accent that is not mine I always employ a dialect…

— David Oyelowo

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

— David Oyelowo

I know that there is still a lot of bitterness and anger, and arguably justifiably so, when you think about how brutal…

— David Oyelowo

One of the occupational hazards of being an actor, the reason why so many actors are insecure, is that the only way…

— David Oyelowo

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

— David Oyelowo