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 think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Good
  • Why
  • Know

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

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • America
  • Freedom

• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• I like sitting close to windows.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like
  • Sitting
  • Windows

• New York is my home.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Home
  • New
  • New York

• 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.'

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Know
  • Hair
  • Drive

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

  

  Fei Fei Sun
  • Friend
  • Shoes
  • Clothes

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

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Airplane

• 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.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Past

• 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.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

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

  

  Dana Perino
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Inspire

• 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.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Different
  • Wrestling
  • Quiet

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

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Love
  • Love You
  • Shall

• Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Good
  • Control
  • Evil

• The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Universe

• If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Work
  • You
  • Talent

• I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Mother

• I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Literature

• Ninety-nine percent of Indian people loved me and they still love me.

  

  M. F. Husain
  • People
  • Loved
  • Percent

• The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Language
  • Stars
  • Lapse Of Ages

• Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Love
  • Nature

• I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school - even glee club.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • Up
  • Music
  • School

• If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Life
  • High
  • Failure

• 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