Quotes
The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.
The creative processes are so mysterious.
Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency.
Surely the President realizes that the moment a man steps foot on the moon will be a definitive one in the history of the world.
You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when they're talking about important stuff.
After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
When my Azzedine jacket from 1987 died, I wrapped it up in a box, attached a note saying where it came from and took it to the Salvation Army.
I'm kind of like a dumb model.
We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.
To me acting originally became an extension of game playing. Childhood games, and that kinda grew into something else. As I've got older it's changed and it's moved more towards self-understanding about how other people escape into other worlds. It's become me trying to open doors into other people.
Sometimes people that you try and understand are bottomless wells and you can't get there, and in a way those kinds of characters are fascinating to play and often in a very painful space, a very screwed up world and you naturally do find that place. But I do agree that you sometimes by necessity suffer.
It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.
Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.
I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.
I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life. I think what's happened to me over the years is that it has impinged and made my world change for the better because I'm being forced to kind of enter the same world that other people inhabit.
I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too.
I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.
I found taking the hits more difficult than giving them... between that hit and that hit I want to get another one in.
I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.