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" Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life. "

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" I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride. "

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" I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that. "

" When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?' "

" I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience. "

" Sometimes people think I'm wearing a wig when I'm not wearing a wig, and then sometimes they think I'm not wearing a wig when I am wearing a wig. "

" For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver. "

" I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own. "

" Just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don't give up no matter what they say. "

" I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business. "

" To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new. "

" I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination? "

" One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits. "

" I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it. "

" I'm very impressed with 'Drive.' "

" When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music. "

" My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere. "

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" As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me. "

" The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from. "

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