English - Actor | December 6, 1975 -
People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.
Noel Clarke
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I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.
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I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.
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I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.
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I can't always be making 'British films.' Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?
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I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.
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I don't think I'm egotistical, and I know what my limits are: I'm a black guy who's probably losing his hair. But I'm happy to play roles that I'm given, and I'm happy to play roles that I write.
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After 'Kidulthood,' I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.
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I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.
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I think the British industry is set up to support British film, if we make films that enable them to support it. If you don't make a commercial film, distributors can't get behind it. If they don't get behind it, the film doesn't do well.
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I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?
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I did 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' and that's what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do 'hood films and be the guy swinging baseball bats and saying 'Yo Blood' and beating up others in the street.
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