Daniel Kaluuya Quotes
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When I need a reality check, I call my mum.
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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.'
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What's great about 'Skins' is that the characters are exactly like people around you.
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I just like playing guys, normal dudes. That's the stuff that I really enjoy watching: when it feels grounded.
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Racism isn't just in America... Alienation is felt worldwide in different capacities.
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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.
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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.
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'Sicario' was a lot of improvisation.
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This industry's hard. The world is hard. Being young and black is tough.
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I think diverse stories are just stories. I don't think 'diverse' is an add-on package. Things that are not diverse are weird because that's not accurate.
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I didn't take writing seriously at first - I didn't think I could do it. When I did, I fell in love with it. But writing is very lonely.
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I don't think you become a name with just one job.
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'Skins' was like our uni. I'm tight with everyone from 'Skins' because we had that special experience together.
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I go to music festivals, and people want to talk to me about racism. I'm like, 'Bro, I'm trying to have fun!'
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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.
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I feel like racism's more pronounced in America.
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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.
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Racism kills people. It kills people!
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Really, I have no idea how I'm perceived in the industry.
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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.
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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.
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I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.
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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.
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I love being black.