Idris Elba Quotes
Top 54 wise famous quotes and sayings by Idris Elba
Idris Elba Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Idris Elba on Wise Famous Quotes.
I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.
Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.
There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.
I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
I'm not a popular actor. I don't necessarily want to be famous. I want to be known for great work. I want to be known to surprise audiences.
If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.
Television, for me, is a medium that I'm probably always going to be attached to, one way or another.
The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
My definition of bad-ass is that I'm a force of nature and true spirit. I'm self-admitting that, and it sounds vain to say that, but I am.
I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.
I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.
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.
I'll always be attached to telly in one way or another, whether it's a character or producer or director, I just love the medium.
When you come from an under-privileged background, oftentimes, you feel a little overwhelmed by your education or your lack of.
Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.
I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.