Believe Quote by Riz Ahmed

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…

— Riz Ahmed

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

— Riz Ahmed

Bandwagons roll through our lives. It's up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert…

— Riz Ahmed

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

— Riz Ahmed

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…

— Riz Ahmed

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…

— Riz Ahmed

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

— Riz Ahmed

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.…

— Riz Ahmed

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…

— Riz Ahmed

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…

— Riz Ahmed

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

— Riz Ahmed

It's crazy how we always hate the things closest to us.

— Riz Ahmed