Idris Elba Quotes

The less I talk about being black, the better.

Idris Elba

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• It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Happy
  • Better
  • Be Happy

• Well, for us, it's always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it's always a big plus no matter what happens.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Better
  • Expectations
  • Flow

• The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Kind
  • Better
  • Product

• Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Passion
  • Moral
  • Better

• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Time
  • Better
  • Human

• With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Perfect
  • Better
  • Imperfection

• One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Business
  • Black
  • Girl

• College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Experience
  • Black
  • College

• But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows and that's thanks to the position I'm now in, which is totally due to my fans.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Confidence
  • Better
  • Thanks

• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Work
  • Think
  • Better

• Hiking is something that I really, really like to do. It's distracting, you're in nature, and you get a nice workout that way. I would tell everyone to hike as much as they can - you just feel so much better when you get outdoors. I'm also into yoga.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Nature
  • Nice
  • Better

• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Better
  • Excellence
  • Striving

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The casualties in the Civil War amount to more than all other wars - all other American wars combined. More people died in that war than World War II, World War I, Vietnam, etc. And that was a war for white supremacy. It was a war to erect a state in which the basis of it was the enslavement of black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • World
  • American

• I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Want
  • Black

• A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semitism, is our profound scepticism that white people can actually be oppressed.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • People
  • Women
  • Black

• I fell asleep during 'Year One' twice. And my son, who never falls asleep during a Jack Black movie, also nodded off. That's how bad it was. I was incredibly disappointed.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Black

• If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.

  

  William James
  • Black
  • Wish
  • Prove

• Walk like a champion! Talk like a champion!

  

  Buju Banton
  • Champion
  • Talk
  • Walk

• I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Believe
  • Economy
  • Australia

• Ted Cruz, who uses phrases like 'carpet-bombing' the people of ISIS and who said, after the incidents in Paris, that we need a war president, is using fear mongering and hate speech. As a citizen of the world, I'm very concerned that this kind of behavior is being cheered on by anyone. It only brings more pain and suffering.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • World
  • War

• The less I talk about being black, the better.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Black
  • Better
  • Talk