Idris Elba Quotes

Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

Idris Elba

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I know a lot of kids that if you don't know how to deal with them, you lose them. They don't come ready-made.

Jim Brown

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I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.

Jennifer Flavin

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I try to squeeze in a workout whenever I can, even if it's doing squats with my 7-month-old in the kitchen or jumping on the trampoline with my 5-year-old.

Jennie Finch

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You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

Maya Angelou

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The grandest ambition that any man can possibly have is to so live and so improve himself in heart and brain as to be worthy of the love of some splendid woman; and the grandest ambition of any girl is to make herself worthy of the love and adoration of some magnificent man.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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We just make clothes, but for some, that's an important thing.

Robert J. Fisher

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I'm confident that Gov. Romney can win over the American people on the promise of limited government, defending individual liberties and a return to common-sense solutions to our country's biggest problems.

Jeff Duncan

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The only people with power today are the audience. And that is increasing with Twitter, Facebook, and everything else. We cater to their likes and dislikes, and you ignore that at your peril.

Simon Cowell

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I wanted to talk face-to-face with as many people as would see me. Some actors were so busy they could only give me an hour on the phone. But my feeling is that if you're actually in the room with them, they get comfortable and you get more.

Mitchell Zuckoff

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Put all of your savings on autopilot, and you won't likely notice the missing cash.

Jean Chatzky

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I identify more as a musician than as a singer, because I play piano and percussion, and I engineer and produce everything that I do.

Janina Gavankar

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A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview.

Donald E. Westlake

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