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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
~ Idris Elba
Ever
Explain
Get
Had
Most
Never
People
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If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.
~ Idris Elba
Bottle
Go
Gonna
Jail
Least
Million
Steal
Stealing
Then
Want
Water
Worth
Worth It
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'
~ Idris Elba
Almost
Black
Call
Everyone
Film
Films
Going
Impossible
Just
Make
Represents
Then
Which
White
Why
You
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
~ Idris Elba
About
Africa
Against
Ambition
Any
Black
Calculated
Decided
Did
Either
England
Fact
Get
Go
Going
History
Integration
Leave
Longer
Maths
Much
Resentment
White
Work
You
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In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.
~ Idris Elba
Again
Come
Film
Good
Good Times
Had
Haircut
However
Might
Moustache
Out
Pacific
Rock
Times
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
~ Idris Elba
Countries
Knows
No-One
Some
Who
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It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.
~ Idris Elba
Could
Feel
Grammy
Night
Oscar
Pressure
Whatever
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
~ Idris Elba
Because
Came
Come
Deeply
Did
Famous
Going
He
His
Important
Know
Mandela
Me
Story
Understand
Upbringing
Where
Who
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It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.
~ Idris Elba
Actually
Criminal
How
Ignored
Quite
Systematically
Wire
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It's really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching 'Daddy's Little Girls' literally in tears.
~ Idris Elba
Because
Bell
Daddy
Funny
Girl
Literally
Little
Little Girls
Loved
Me
People
Really
Same
Tears
Watching
Were
Who
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It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'
~ Idris Elba
All Day
Back
Because
Business
Day
Fan
Fan Mail
Get
God
Got
Happens
House
Like
Long
Mail
Oh
Oh My God
Parents
Piece
Really
Them
Understand
Weird
Write
You
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
~ Idris Elba
General
I Love
Love
Nike
Obsessed
Particularly
Sneakers
Them
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
~ Idris Elba
Between
Certain
Certain Things
Characters
Dialect
Interaction
Like
Me
Moment
Need
Now
Page
Prepare
Skills
Special
Things
Two
You
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
~ Idris Elba
Baltimore
Boy
East
Expect
Guy
London
Me
More
People
Than
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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
Black
Blue-Eyed
Bond
Craig
Daniel
Him
James
James Bond
Played
Scottish
Sean
Sean Connery
Want
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
~ Idris Elba
Away
Because
Being
Dark
Happened
Here
More
Much
People
Recently
See
Sort
Sort
Television
Things
Too
Uplifting
Us
Wanting
West
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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
Action
Adrenaline
Bikes
Cliffs
Doing
Feeling
Film
Jumping
Lot
Me
Much
Out
Specific
Touch
Very
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The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
~ Idris Elba
About
American
Bad
Bad Guys
Cunning
English
Good
Guys
James
More
Much
Obvious
Villain
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The less I talk about being black, the better.
~ Idris Elba
About
Being
Better
Black
Less
Talk
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The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.
~ Idris Elba
Am
England
Excellent
Green
I Am
Less
Light
Long
Movies
None
Now
Position
Really
Short
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