Idris Elba Quotes

I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

Idris Elba

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PathLawTwoYearsEverythingUp

To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?

Jimi Hendrix

HairWorldShortTryingYouKnow

Just taking care of yourself is a job of its own.

Joanna Krupa

JobYourselfCareOwnJustTaking

Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

Maya Angelou

GoodWinePartyPlayChiliServe

It became a question of do I want to be on a label where it could take three years to put out a record instead of putting out three records over the same period of time on my own.

Matthew Sweet

TimeThreeWantMy OwnQuestionOut

The truth is, I could no more dictate her nature than she could dictate mine. Kinsey's happy as she is and she doesn't need to be rescued, improved, or saved.

Sue Grafton

NatureTruthHappyTruth IsSheHer

No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.

Tom Hanks

FamilyLiveHouseWillWayOut

The big producer is going to figure out how to deal with whatever the rules are, but the little guy who is running a few hundred units or maybe feeding 1,500 cattle a year, how will they ever comply with these requirements?

Mike Johanns

YearRulesWillWhateverOutBig

If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.

Michael Novak

LifeYouMoreNextThroughPosition

Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler.

Michael Steinhardt

JoyWinningRightMayWellRush

While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius, the insightful individual or just the old grandmother may reasonably declare the world to be mad? Probably, but what hope or happiness would such an individual have?

Michael Leunig

HappinessHopePowerCrazyWorld

During the Reagan years, government shut down eight different times under a Democrat Congress. The president and Congress worked together and got things straightened out. Under the Carter years, again a Democrat Congress, the government shut down five times.

Mitt Romney

TogetherGovernmentDownCongress

The expectation in the Obama Administration, or at least the hope, is that a nuclear deal with the West could ultimately moderate Iranian behavior by helping to integrate the country more thoroughly into the international system. Will this happen? It's impossible to predict, of course. We will only know if we get there.

Dexter Filkins

HopeImpossibleBehaviorCountry

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