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Djimon Hounsou Quotes

American - Actor | April 24, 1964 -

My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.

Passion More Out West Stories Mixed

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

Eyes Africa Where Continent Opened

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

Family Home Support Child Left Just

School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.

School Smart Me Saying Thought Way

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

Understanding America Africa Fields

Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

Sports Modeling Boxing Practicing

If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.

Fashion Company Anything Iconic

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

Women Men Gym Place Young Right

I happened to the be the fifth child of my family, so everybody was already grown and had left home already.

Family Home Child Left Happened Had

The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.

Time School Night Trying Find Paris

The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.

Culture Diversity World Speak Grow

We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.

Together Fun Cool Inspire Go See

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