Idris Elba Quotes

You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

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• I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

  

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• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

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• I like sitting close to windows.

  

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• New York is my home.

  

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• I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'

  

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• I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.

  

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• For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.

  

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• Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.

  

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• Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.

  

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• I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.

  

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• Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.

  

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• You keep learning all the time.

  

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• I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.

  

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• I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.

  

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• Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

  

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• Wrestling in Japan, obviously, the fans are a little bit different - very quiet, very respectful in New Japan - but here in the WWE, these fans are going nuts.

  

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• If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

  

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• Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it.

  

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• True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

  

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• It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

  

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• I am still a Liverpool fan and will be forever, absolutely

  

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• You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Love
  • Career
  • Goal