"It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?"
-Idris Elba
FamousView Quote
"The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.“
-Idris Elba
posted in Movies
Other Quotes by Idris Elba
Discover more inspiring quotes by Idris Elba
"There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character."
-Idris Elba
ImaginationView Quote
"I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it."
-Idris Elba
SuccessView Quote
"White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change."
-Idris Elba
HopeView Quote
"I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good."
-Idris Elba
FutureView Quote
"It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears."
-Idris Elba
FunnyView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
-Alfred Hitchcock
MoviesView Quote
"This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country."
-Clint Eastwood
MoviesView Quote
"Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy."
-Bjork
MoviesView Quote
"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians."
-Francis Ford Coppola
MoviesView Quote
"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."
-Catherine Deneuve
MoviesView Quote
"Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore."
-Johnny Depp
MoviesView Quote