Idris Elba Quotes

The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not doing that so much. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action.

Idris Elba

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MeActionDoingFeelingTouchOut

I've always been interested in the economics of reproduction, who gets what they want when it comes to childbearing and how these days, money is a tremendous advantage.

Jennifer Weiner

MoneyEconomicsWantAlwaysDays

How my film career happened, I don't know. It was unplanned. I'd been in films and TV throughout the Sixties and early Seventies, but it was really 'The Naked Civil Servant' in 1975 that put me on the radar.

John Hurt

MeEarlyCareerKnowSixtiesNaked

It is, from another angle, an attack on requiring proof in philosophy. And it's also the case, I guess, that my temperament is to like interesting, new, bold ideas, and to try and generate them.

Robert Nozick

IdeasInterestingPhilosophyBold

'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying.

Robert Gottlieb

MeditationDyingTendernessBeloved

Just going to Africa is amazing; it all comes back to the motherland. It's pretty much where everything started.

Amar'e Stoudemire

AmazingBackAfricaEverythingGoing

Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.

Steven Adler

MusicWindowYouFeelingRightOut

If you can find interesting ways to be clear, you're really onto something.

Steven Soderbergh

InterestingYouFindSomethingClear

I don't feel pressure going into games.

Michael Owen

PressureFeelGamesGoing

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

Michael Lewis

BaseballAmericanRootedFanSons

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

ThoughtRealityLanguageHarmony

I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.

Donny Deutsch

TimeI AmPeopleSeeI SeeComputer

It goes back in the black community that the police are not your friends. That's an old, old, deep understanding that we have, that it's going to take a lot to undo that in our minds.

Courtney B. Vance

CommunityPoliceDeepBlackFriends

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Idris Elba