Idris Elba Quotes
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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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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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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Drugs scared me.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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It's easy for me to be motivated and inspired by seeing somebody who just goes all out to do something.
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Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.
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The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
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It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there.
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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
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What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
