Idris Elba Quotes
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'
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If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr!
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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I feel totally French – I don't feel half-French because of my dual nationality. For me, dual nationality just means I don't deny my roots.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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You are just your intelligence.
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone told me I was being rude.
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A lot of people want to discredit me.
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I've since become really good at overwhelming myself.
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A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
