Michael B. Jordan Quotes
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[Ryan Gosling] just got by because he's a cute kid? Yeah. I was an ugly kid; "The Mickey Mouse Club" wasn't for me.
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I'm extremely blessed. There's a lot of people trying to exactly what I'm doing, but I'm a part of that 9.1 percent that's actually having their dream come true. I just don't take that for granted.
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Being compared to that man Michael Jordan, who has accomplished so much in his lifetime and is known as one of the greatest ever, is an amazing compliment, but I still want to be looked at as an individual and have my own lane and my own career and looked at as "That's Mike." "That' s Michael B."
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You know, you can try and plan filmin as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.
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Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.
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Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody's job and don't just settle.
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I've always wanted to direct and as I grow and I get older and I get older I just want to let that evolve.
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I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a lot of different things!
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It may not happen in my lifetime, but if I can play a part in moving things along, then I feel I've done a good job.
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I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.
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I think it's just easier for people to put you in a box or a lane because you look similar. I think that's unfair for anybody in any situation.
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As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?
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We all use texting as a crutch because it's so easy and it doesn't really stop our day for the most part but I think to assure a woman you want to go out, to see that you're serious, you take the extra effort to pick up the phone and make a phone call.
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I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.
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I think every guy that's dated a girl or hasn't been straightaway into a relationship has had that 'so...' moment where a girl is like, 'Hey what are you doing?'
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I'm definitely a lover, but I fight when I have to - for something or someone.
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Chicago PD has a rule that if you work in Chicago you have to live in Chicago. Some areas don't have that rule.So oftentimes you get people from different environments that get thrown into environments with people that they never spent time with before in they life. On a daily basis or in their personal life. The only access they had to these type of people was through the media.
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In many ways for black actors there's been two leading guys: It's Will Smith vs. Denzel [Washington].
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You see somebody like me, as young as I was at the time, driving around the inner city of Newark, and to them [police] it doesn't make sense. I've been illegally searched [and had] my car illegally searched. [I've] been handcuffed for no reason. You get in enough of those situations.
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Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene. And music excites me because it puts me in a mind state, whatever that may be.
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To the trolls on the internet, I want to say: Get your head out of the computer. Go outside and walk around. Look at the people walking next to you. Look at your friends' friends and who they're interacting with. And just understand this is the world we live in. It's okay to like it.
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I think Chris Evans has got Captain America locked up. The role is in good hands.
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I think everybody wants to be their own person and be an individual.
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I can't sing worth a lick, so I don't know if I would be allowed in the ["The Mickey Mouse Club"].