Idris Elba Quotes
I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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Once you're signed to a label you compromise.
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I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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Religion is such an important part of so many people's lives, and I don't understand it at all.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relationships.
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You can only train three or four hours a day, so what do you do with the other 20 hours?
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.
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I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.
