Daniel Kaluuya Quotes
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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 am definitely not a household face, and I don't expect to be one.
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I love being black.
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Really, I have no idea how I'm perceived in the industry.
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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.
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Racism kills people. It kills people!
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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.
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I resent that I have to prove that I'm black.
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I know what it means to be stopped by police. I've been stopped by police a lot.
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Sometimes I'll work in America, sometimes I'll work in England. What's important is fulfilment. I just want to tell stories.
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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.
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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.
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Racism is like a horror movie. Black kids die because of racism. I don't know what's more horrifying than that.
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Writing can be really lonely, and I find that bit difficult. I'd rather be around my people, getting ideas.
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I think the traditional stereotypes are loaded in institutional racism.
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Nas is such a touchstone in my world.
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Everything men do is for women.
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'The Fades' is its own world. If you try and link it to some religion, you have people going, 'Oh, that's not right,' with their Bible open. Let's just chuck some imagination at it.
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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.
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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.
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What you want to do is make people talk, start a conversation.
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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.
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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.
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I just want to tell black stories.