O. T. Fagbenle Quotes
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The older I get, the more I dance like my dad, and I'm finding that suddenly cardigans are becoming more attractive to me.
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Oakland's got a lot of character.
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I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men and women that not only exists temporally but geographically as well.
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I'm hungry as an artist to find opportunities to contribute to the world in a more meaningful way than just numbing people through entertainment.
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I loved doing my own stunts, and so, as much as the insurance people would allow me, I would get involved.
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'The Interceptor' is gritty but also entertaining. The action is great as well.
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'The Interceptor' has an excitement and grittiness to it, but it's also very entertaining. It lives in this sphere of a slightly heightened reality where, although you completely identify and recognise all the characters in it, they're fun and exciting to watch.
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I really want to do Broadway.
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My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.
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As a younger man, I thought the best thing art could do was to challenge people's mindsets, and I still do, but I've come round to the value of entertainment. A show like 'The Interceptor,' which gives the audience that release, after a hard day, of just sitting down and enjoying themselves - that adds value to lives, too.
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I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I'm not really attached to a label.
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I came to the States less to find fortune and fame and more to kind of have a life experience of seeing something new.
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I think what often happens when people leave their spouse for someone else is they tend to go for the opposite of what they already have.
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I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and through research, and there's one's own experience.
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My whole life, I have considered myself a feminist.
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As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view.
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I feel like within each of us is a million different people that we could reveal and that we can be sometimes... And for me, the process of acting isn't so much about finding the person outside of myself and mimicking them but, rather, releasing parts of myself and adding them to the character.
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As a man, having a conversation about feminism can be tricky - the best I can do is to have assumptions and ask questions. You always run the risk of putting your foot in it.