Quotes by David Oyelowo

David Oyelowo

At the end of the day, everyone knows what it is to be loved and to aspire to love someone, to want to be loved, the loss of love, or having their love be opposed, whether it is family, friends or politically.

Loss

Love Is

The End Of The Day

Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.

Bullying

Kids

Teacher

Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.

Considering

Film

Interracial Marriage

Considering that I’m British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

Chance

Directors

Way

Dr. Martin Luther King was never a man to say ‘I’ve got this’ as the leader of the movement. He wasn’t always sure that his decisions were correct, because he knew every decision he made was putting lives at risk, including his and his family’s lives.

Decision

Kings

Men

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

Audience

Excellent

Fine

For me, I’m always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?

Opportunity

Stars

Years

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

Hate

Only Love

Overcoming

I admire many actors, though I don’t think there’s anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I’m really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I’m very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star’s career combined.

Character

Stars

Thinking

I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I’m putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I’ve done. I want to be able to stand by it.

Children

Father

Knowing

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Actors

Age

America

Art

Audience

Baby

Believe

Black

Bullying

Challenges

Chance

Character

Children

Christian

Civilization

Clothes

Community

Considering

Country

Decision

Degrees

Deny

Dialect Coach

Directors

Empowered

Excellent

Eye

Father

Feet

Film

Fine

Friendship

Hate

Hurtful

Interracial Marriage

Keys

Kids

Kings

Knowing

Labels

Leader

Loss

Love Is

Mean

Media

Men

Mistake

Moving

Only Love

Opportunity

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Quotes by David Oyelowo

David Oyelowo

At the end of the day, everyone knows what it is to be loved and to aspire to love someone, to want to be loved, the loss of love, or having their love be opposed, whether it is family, friends or politically.

Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.

Considering how pervasive interracial marriage is, certainly in American society, it is rare we get to see it depicted on film.

Considering that I’m British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

Dr. Martin Luther King was never a man to say ‘I’ve got this’ as the leader of the movement. He wasn’t always sure that his decisions were correct, because he knew every decision he made was putting lives at risk, including his and his family’s lives.

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

For me, I’m always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

I admire many actors, though I don’t think there’s anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I’m really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I’m very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star’s career combined.

I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I’m putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I’ve done. I want to be able to stand by it.

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