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Acting Quote by Riz Ahmed

“My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.” quote by Riz Ahmed — Download Open image

“My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.”

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My parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in…

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I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

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The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us…

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The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don't believe what you're saying, it hears it. If you don't believe…

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I don't feel that any kind of narrow stereotypes are representative of the work I've done, nor the range of the audience that work…

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You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging… They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before…

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First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True…

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I'm not trying to project any persona. Often people don't know where to put me. I don't fit comfortably under banners, and that's fine.…

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The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like…

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No-one gets a job at 16 and stays in it until 60 any more; we're connected to more people simultaneously than ever before, whether…

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The fact is, I've been releasing records longer than I've been releasing films, or at least exactly as long.

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