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" Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape. "
Our
Hold
Them
" Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change. "
Bond
You
Me
" Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said. "
Opportunities
Differences
Black
" As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with. "
People
Say
You
" Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it. "
Good
Questions
Me
" Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will. "
Saying
Bond
Dream
" Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album. "
Work
Song
See
" Every single film I've done, it's about the character. "
Single
Character
About
" I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day. "
Day
Which
Twitter
" I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through. "
Play
Green
Forget
" I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement. "
Sense
Achievement
London
" I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it. "
Home
Place
Moment
" I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it. "
I Can
Tough
Young
" 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. "
Worth It
Want
Go
" 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.' "
You
Why
White
" 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. "
Black
Go
History
" I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can. "
You
Like
Look
" I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time. "
Week
Time
Work
" I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right. "
Years
Accent
Three
" I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture. "
Time
People
Culture
" I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now. "
Bike
End
Love
" I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am. "
Kind
Actor
Different
" I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy. "
Way
Fans
Man
" I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still. "
Saying
Myself
Journey
" I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way. "
Way
Work
Culture
" I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business. "
Like
Business
You
" I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy. "
Sexy
Woman
Me
" 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. "
Good
Rock
Haircut
" In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is. "
Some
Countries
Knows
" I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career. "
Career
Singing
Love
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