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" Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source. "

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" Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album. "

" Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said. "

" I think there's a tendency for actors like myself, and I don't mean to generalize myself, but I've played 'men's men,' if you will, characters that are simmering rage and calculated. There's a trend not to play anything that is opposed to that. "

" White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It's been that way for a very long time. I hope it'll change, but it's a matter of forcing that change. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement. "

" Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them. "

" I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it. "

" I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training. "

" 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. "

" Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes. "

" 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. "

" I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there. "

" 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. "

" Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape. "

" The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always. "

" When I was a kid, I thought it was tough. "

" I tend to stay away from the comics. "

" When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies. "

" I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public. "

" 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. "

" It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored. "

" 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. "

" In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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" The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm. "