David Oyelowo Quotes

Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.

David Oyelowo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 1, 1976

Topics

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Everybody makes a lot of money when the French come to town.

Jerry Della Femina

MoneyComeFrenchEverybodyTown

It's nice to have writers write nice things about you and guys on radio and TV say nice things about you, but the guy who's in the locker next to you is the one you play the game for.

Joe Torre

GameYouPlayNiceSayRadio

Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am.

Sissy Spacek

HomeI AmRememberYouGoFame

What's meant to be will always find a way.

Trisha Yearwood

FindMeant To BeWillWayAlways

If I had a long-term partner, I don't think I'd be an actor. It'd be too much of a strain; you have to work too hard to balance that life with a family and a mortgage and all that stuff - it would be too much.

Rory McCann

LifeWorkFamilyBalanceThinkYou

The American future is here, and there's great news: the future votes.

Rosario Dawson

FutureGreatAmericanNewsHere

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them.

Jonathan Ames

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I don't eat sushi, but I eat cooked meat.

Drake Bell

SushiEatMeatCooked

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Donald Judd

ArtThinkMoralityNowKindDenial

I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

Christie Brinkley

LoveStressManSufferingMeFall

In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of those lighter browns in the Crayola box. You have to be careful of the cops and robbers, because nobody's quite sure what you are, but everybody has assumptions.

Sherman Alexie

MeNightAssumptionsYouNobodyBox

I'm not saying that I don't like the stuff I put out into the world, because I genuinely enjoy my videos and think they are funny. What I'm saying is that I embrace the fact that I have a punchable face, and that if I could punch myself without feeling it, I would.

Shane Dawson

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