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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was at school and one of my friends said something funny, I'd write it down in a notebook and take it to the writers meetings. I never told my friends about it. I just thought I could incorporate stuff that was true to life.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing can be really lonely, and I find that bit difficult. I'd rather be around my people, getting ideas.
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is like a horror movie. Black kids die because of racism. I don't know what's more horrifying than that.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go to music festivals, and people want to talk to me about racism. I'm like, 'Bro, I'm trying to have fun!'
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything men do is for women.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually I do a job, and, like, two weeks later, it disappears and is replaced with something else, but 'Get Out' kept growing and growing and growing, and it keeps taking me to rooms I could never get in before.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned so much on 'Sicario' and working with that group of actors, where there was the audacity, the confidence, to do nothing.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life ain't a drama. And life isn't just a comedy. Life is sometimes horrifying. Life is science-fiction. There are all elements and faculties that we navigate, so I just expect a script to reflect that. As long as it's truthful. I think genre-bending is just being honest.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loads of stuff that I've done has always had a hint of comedy. I did this show called 'Psychoville' that's a horror-comedy. Because I just think that's what life's like.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like racism's more pronounced in America.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Sicario' was a lot of improvisation.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the 'sunken place' - that term is what I hear when I'm just casually living my life. People say it around me. Not because they're around me; they're saying it because it articulated a state of mind. Lil Wayne's rapped about it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a play, back in the day, called 'Sucker Punch,' and it meant so much for me. I was 21. And I went, 'I just want to do work like that.' Stuff I believe in. And when I have compromised, I've never really felt good about it.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having something that makes money changes everything. I'm from England, and it's very much about credibility there. And yeah, it is about that. But the money can change things. And so you understand it's a business.
- Touchstone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nas is such a touchstone in my world.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of times, the people who have the confidence to say, 'I don't know what the rules are, so I'm just going to do what I want,' are the most exciting people.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
The beauty of any artwork is that it becomes the person that's watching it: What do you take out of it?
- Cold
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- Nov 07, 2020
Donae'o is too cold; he's been dropping bangers since 2000.
- Nov 07, 2020
Giggs is the realest.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I'm in a film that's from a perspective that is dominant within western culture... I'm always trying to prove myself. When it's from a black perspective, I don't have to - they get it.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love being black.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I'm doing is being in films that I would watch if I wasn't in this industry.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm dark-skinned. When I'm around black people, I'm made to feel 'other' because I'm dark-skinned. I've had to wrestle with that, with people going, 'You're too black.' Then I come to America, and they say, 'You're not black enough.'
- Prove
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- Nov 07, 2020
I resent that I have to prove that I'm black.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to show off my struggle so that people accept that I'm black. No matter that every single room I go to, I'm usually the darkest person there... I kind of resent that mentality. I'm just an individual.
- Decisions
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are decisions and actions.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what it means to be stopped by police. I've been stopped by police a lot.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been to so many parties in England and in America that's exactly like that, where you're kind of, like, seen as Other. When you're just living your life, and you have to adopt the Other in order to understand and navigate the society.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the real world, there's probably nothing more horrifying than racism. Living racism is a horrifying experience. And then, having to normalize it and internalize it.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I listened to this book, 'The Beauty Myth,' about how beauty standards are messing with women in Western society, and I was like, 'I don't know this.' I have no idea, and I don't pretend to, but now I'm more aware of it because I've engaged on that frequency.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you become a name with just one job.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being young, working class, and black, everything you do is policed. If someone hits you and you hit back, you are aggressive. If you cry, you are weak. You are kind of always pretending to be something.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want to tell black stories.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I go to Uganda, I can't speak the language. In India, I'm black. In the black community, I'm dark-skinned. In America, I'm British.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even people who say that black people are minorities, there are a billion black people in the world. A billion white people. What part of that is a minority? If you separate yourself, then maybe. But I see black people as one man. When I see people beaten on the streets of America, that hurts me. I feel that.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Skins' was like our uni. I'm tight with everyone from 'Skins' because we had that special experience together.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience growing up in London and growing up in a working class background is that when people are down and out, that's when they're probably the funniest. They have to be. That's what they do to cope, to find joy, 'cause they don't feel the joy inside. Or they use humor to keep people out.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some black women hug me and walk away. A lot of black men talk about dating white women and how they've been there, too. People open up about their racial experiences. I feel like I'm a walking therapy session. It's quite intense. But it means a lot to people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a young black man, you're not allowed to be emotional. One of the reasons I act is people pay me to be emotional.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope people listen to black people more. You'd be surprised how little people listen to black people when it comes to racial issues. It's weird.
- Punch
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Sucker Punch' was so demanding, it scared me a bit.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of black men running around with crazy trauma scars, and they should be going to therapy. They should be sitting down and talking to people. But they can't. If you've got the armor of being a man, and the armor of being a black man, that hyper-masculine thing can make those scars deeper.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it hard to watch a lot of the kind of things I'm doing before doing it. I don't think it's helpful for me. It makes me too aware.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism isn't just in America... Alienation is felt worldwide in different capacities.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like three-dimensional characters - it's just more interesting when you get on set.
- Nov 07, 2020
Racism kills people. It kills people!
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to own the fact that I'm a black man - that's why I did 'Black Panther' and 'Widows' because if I play the industry game, I lose.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It's a coping mechanism.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that's all you do as an actor. You give ingredients for the edit, and the edit's the stew, and they try to make a meal out of it. That's all you are. You just throw things in. This is an idea, this is an idea.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just like playing guys, normal dudes. That's the stuff that I really enjoy watching: when it feels grounded.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I'll work in America, sometimes I'll work in England. What's important is fulfilment. I just want to tell stories.
- Check
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- Nov 07, 2020