David Oyelowo Quotes

If you're going to play human beings, and you're going to play them three-dimensionally, you have to show every side of them.

David Oyelowo

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• You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Go
  • Ride

• So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Country
  • Black

• We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.

  

  Eddie Obeng
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Year

• I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Book
  • First
  • Everyone

• Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Gift
  • Strangers

• My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Small

• Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Hand
  • Fire
  • Carry

• I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Myself
  • Will
  • Later

• Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • History
  • Garden
  • Impossible

• I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • More
  • Personally
  • Visual

• The building is a domed structure made of white marble inlaid with colourful gemstones in the shapes of flowers. Passage from the Quran are inlaid in black marble.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Black
  • Quran

• 'What’s Hell?' inquired Wild-Eye. 'You should visit before you pass judgement on a place. And have you never heard it said, the Dark One is a gentleman?'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Dark
  • Gentleman

• When a parent denies a child its 'parent time,' that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Support

• I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Life
  • Christian

• A prince, the moment he is crown'd,Inherits every virtue sound,As emblems of the sovereign power,Like other baubles in the Tower:Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,And so continues till he dies.

  

  Prince
  • Power
  • Wise
  • Prince

• It's the nicest birthday I've ever had. You've made a happy man very old.

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Happy
  • Birthday

• In bachata, you had these guys that used to wear suits and had a really traditional style. We looked different. Baggy jeans. We had the Spanglish going on, and I knew that was going to work to our advantage.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Work
  • Different
  • Style

• The diverse threats we face are increasingly cyber-based. Much of America's most sensitive data is stored on computers. We are losing data, money, and ideas through cyber intrusions. This threatens innovation and, as citizens, we are also increasingly vulnerable to losing our personal information.

  

  James Comey
  • Money
  • America
  • Innovation

• Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Faith
  • Exercise

• As in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.

  

  Plutarch
  • Picture
  • Destroy
  • Figure

• I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they're, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes.

  

  Dave Attell
  • People

• Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Die

• If you're going to play human beings, and you're going to play them three-dimensionally, you have to show every side of them.

  

  David Oyelowo