Daniel Kaluuya Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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I used to be a professional kiteboarder. People were like, 'Oh, my God, are you scared of sharks? Are you scared of injuries?' You can't be scared. If you're scared, then you can't do it. You can't train to be the best.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.
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Any radical change or trauma always makes for interesting subject matter, but then all stories deal, to some extent, with the disjuncture between past and present.
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From a distance, at a time of urbanization and connectivity, rodeo and ranching may seem anachronistic notions - quaint and sepia-toned from an America that no longer exists.
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Never buy anything with a handle on it. It means work.
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Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination--a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.
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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.
