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All Quotes by author - O. T. Fagbenle
" As a man, having a conversation about feminism can be tricky - the best I can do is to have assumptions and ask questions. You always run the risk of putting your foot in it. "
Man
Best
Conversation
" As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view. "
View
Play
Memory
" As a younger man, I thought the best thing art could do was to challenge people's mindsets, and I still do, but I've come round to the value of entertainment. A show like 'The Interceptor,' which gives the audience that release, after a hard day, of just sitting down and enjoying themselves - that adds value to lives, too. "
Art
Best
Challenge
" Elizabeth Moss may very well be one of the best actresses I've had the privilege of standing opposite and sharing lines with. "
Standing
Well
Best
" I came to the States less to find fortune and fame and more to kind of have a life experience of seeing something new. "
Seeing
Life
Find
" I feel like within each of us is a million different people that we could reveal and that we can be sometimes... And for me, the process of acting isn't so much about finding the person outside of myself and mimicking them but, rather, releasing parts of myself and adding them to the character. "
Myself
People
Process
" I loved doing my own stunts, and so, as much as the insurance people would allow me, I would get involved. "
Own
People
Me
" I'm hungry as an artist to find opportunities to contribute to the world in a more meaningful way than just numbing people through entertainment. "
Artist
People
World
" I'm interested in colour-blind hiring of directors, producers, and writers. Go to the source. Then we won't need to have conversations about colour-blind casting. "
Hiring
Interested
Go
" I'm interested in working with great people and exploring great themes in different mediums. "
Great
Great People
People
" I'm not averse to a bit of travel. "
Bit
Travel
Averse
" I really want to do Broadway. "
Really
Broadway
Want
" I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and through research, and there's one's own experience. "
Think
Imagination
People
" I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men and women that not only exists temporally but geographically as well. "
World
Inequality
Men
" I think what often happens when people leave their spouse for someone else is they tend to go for the opposite of what they already have. "
Else
Think
Someone
" I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater. "
Forget
Think
Society
" I think when YouTube first came out, everyone was thinking people were just going to watch five-minute shows from now on and that people didn't have the patience anymore to watch longer programmes. But instead, everyone is binge watching and consuming ten-hour programmes and box sets of shows, so it is really interesting. "
People
Thinking
Watch
" I think you can judge a man by the size of what offends him. "
Man
Him
Judge
" I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I'm not really attached to a label. "
Myself
People
Equality
" It's funny because I was looking back on my Instagram,, and I saw that I had a bunch of feminist posts but that was all before 'Handmaid's Tale.' "
Back
Looking
Looking Back
" It's hard for men sometimes to talk about feminism, just as it's hard for people who aren't from ethnic minorities to talk about racial prejudice. It's a difficult conversation to have, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have it. "
Men
Sometimes
People
" I've always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal. "
Goal
Some
Art
" Love is a hard thing to turn your back on. "
Love Is
Your
Turn
" My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university. "
Set
Economics
Family
" My family is very nomadic - my mom, in particular, traveled the world as a young person, and her father before that, and I guess I have that inside me. "
Mom
Me
Father
" My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria. "
Like
Grandfather
Name
" My whole life, I have considered myself a feminist. "
Life
Feminist
Whole
" Oakland's got a lot of character. "
Got
Oakland
Lot
" Reed Morano is an amazing woman and one of the most extraordinary people I've had the chance to work with. "
Woman
People
Work
" Television is obviously changing; the way we consume media is changing, so I think it's natural that we are going to try different styles. "
Television
Way
Think
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