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People forget that I'm a human being, just because I play a sport that everybody loves. We're human. We're not invincible. We share the same feelings and emotions that people on the outside feel. I don't think people really understand that. ↗

— Terrell Owens

#being #emotions #everybody #feel #feelings

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#chance #considering #director #i #i do

I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#being #black #christian #consider #father

I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#cheek #company #david #doing #done

I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#crafts #daniel #did #equivalent #foot

I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn't the centre of my life. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#been #being #centre #christian #else

My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#children #comfortable #comfortable life #could #dad

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#bid #deny #empowered #our #past

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state. ↗

— Amos Oz

#both #both sides #burned #coexist #compromise

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered. ↗

— Amos Oz

#cultured #more #parents #scale #something