John Boyega Quotes
My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies.
Quotes to Explore
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Good comedy is ageless.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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'HIM' is much more of a British, coming-of-age series, while 'Stranger Things' is very obviously a sci-fi drama.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.
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My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
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Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again.
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Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.
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I always try to get games of different genres. This is the reason Postal is a comedy, and Far Cry is a real, pure action movie - like Die Hard on an island - and In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale was my opportunity to do my epic, Braveheart, Lord Of The Rings, Gladiator movie. I try not to repeat myself in genres too much.
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My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies.
