Idris Elba Quotes

I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

Idris Elba

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 6, 1972

Topics

NatureBusinessMyselfMeYouFirst

If you don't tell the whole truth about yourself, life is a ridiculous exercise.

Joel Grey

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I got fired from being a lunch-shift bartender because I had a reading of a play.

John Krasinski

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I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants.

Jeff Miller

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My eccentricity became direction.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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When I was 11, I went to space camp at the Space Center in Texas, near where I grew up. There, I met video-game-industry pioneer Richard Garriott, better known to gamers everywhere as 'Ultima' creator Lord British.

Steve Jurvetson

SpaceTexasBetterUpLordGamers

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

Siobhan Fahey

PersonAlwaysOutsiderBeen

At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back.

Robert Crais

EffortPeopleRoadProcessLong

Ideas have consequences.

Robert Zubrin

IdeasConsequences

I don't plan the books ahead of time. It's not like Harry Potter. I don't work in a straight line. I don't write with an outline.

Diana Gabaldon

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Voters did say 'repeal health care', they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.'

Chuck Schumer

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There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.

Bonnie Hunt

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Growing up near Scarsdale, I should have had at least one Jewish girlfriend. Maybe at some point it'll happen.

Ato Essandoh

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