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- Fan Mail
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'
- Jail
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. At least then it was worth it.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
- Creativity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.
- Good Times
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.
- Cliffs
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- Nov 07, 2020
The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not doing that so much. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
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, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
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. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.
- Knows
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The less I talk about being black, the better.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.
- Differences
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- Nov 07, 2020
Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
- Bad Guys
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- Nov 07, 2020
The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
- Green Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
- Networking
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
- Comics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to stay away from the comics.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
- Ambition
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there and be as charming as I can and they will think to themselves, 'I don't see why we can't cast him.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.
- Healthcare
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020