Yahya Abdul Mateen Ii Quotes

Acting was always in the back of my head.
'Baywatch' was terrifying. I could feel the financial stakes, you know?
For the things that I've been involved in, most of it has really been - it's been a mixture of action and then drama.
I did not sit down and watch 'Baywatch' growing up. But I do specifically remember it coming on, and I remember it going off. I watched something that came on right before and then going back to that channel to watch what was coming on afterwards.
I had taken an acting class at Berkeley - I was on the track team, and a friend of mine on the team said, 'You should take an acting class. It's just like recess.' So I viewed it as a simple credit.
I have a lot of fun playing quote unquote villains because I think the bad guys get to have more fun, right?
I have a love-hate relationship with working out. I do not enjoy the experience when I'm doing it, but I never regret it.
I just want to do work that gets people excited and makes them feel things, no matter their economic or racial background.
I kind of assumed all of Australia was like the Gold Coast - so I was telling people Australians just work out and go to the beach. Like, Australia has it figured out! But then I went to Sydney, and it was nothing like the Gold Coast - but I still loved it.
I kind of just skyrocketed out of graduate school.
I surprise myself by the things I get excited by.
I think that everybody likes the bad guy.
I wanted to be an architect, and I ended up at my job in San Francisco, and if you would have asked me then, that was one of the greatest jobs that had happened to me in terms of my career.
I wanted to be Michael Jackson as a kid.
I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect it to escalate so rapidly. In my mind, it was like, 'He'll pull through.' When he didn't, I didn't understand. I was 21, and my best friend had died.
If you look at the story of 'The Get Down,' it's the story of young people, unknowns thrown together by their resources, trying to create something.
I'm a thinker.
I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.
I'm not very excitable as a person. What I say is, I'm always chillin', I'm always chillin'.
I'm so thankful every day.
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