Idris Elba Quotes

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

Idris Elba

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CharacterImaginationSomeoneYou

I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.

Jo Brand

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There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Jean Giraudoux

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I think George Bush is one of the most duplicitous presidents we've ever had.

Jean O'Leary

ThinkMostI ThinkEverHadBush

Customers are very demanding and well informed.

Stefano Gabbana

InformedWellCustomersDemanding

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there's some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.

Summer Glau

LoveAloneTeamworkEnjoyKnowWant

I'm looking for best practices constantly. Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me.

Mickey Drexler

BeautifulBestMeLookingDesign

It's difficult to describe the weirdness of speaking to a man who appears to be perfectly in control of his faculties, who can deliver off-the-cuff repartee, and yet who is actually utterly disconnected from who he is.

Louis Theroux

ManControlDifficultWhoDeliver

When I ask for help with my creativity, I get it.

Julia Cameron

CreativityHelpAskGet

I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll.

Josh Ryan Evans

PeopleEvilLivingSome PeopleOut

I refuse to go into a fast-food outlet - to use the toilet even - in case anyone got the wrong idea and thought I was sneaking in a quick burger.

Jonny Wilkinson

BurgerThoughtWrongGoQuickIdea

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

Jose Bergamin

SuccessBe PreparedReadyFail

I think that the first men to land on Pluto are going to make some very astonishing discoveries. But I am also sure that they will never go there in rockets. They will have to make the immense trip by some more powerful means - like the anti-gravitational drive.

Donald A. Wollheim

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