Idris Elba Quotes

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• I watch my daughter wanting to be like other kids and getting upset that she's not. But I always try and instill in her the…
• My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.
• In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
• The less I talk about being black, the better.
• I’m never shaken or stirred.
• Imagine a film such as Inception with an entire cast of black people – do you think it would be successful? Would people watch it?…
• Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie.
• It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in…
• There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film,…
• White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a…
• I dont have a place that I call home at the moment because theres no point. I mean, Im a traveling circus for a while.…
• The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent -…
• The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character…
• When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I…
• You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it.…
• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
• If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million.…
• It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
• The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.
• There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?

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