Top 76 Quotes & Sayings by Daniel Kaluuya - Page 2

I have to own the fact that I'm a black man - that's why I did 'Black Panther' and 'Widows' because if I play the industry game, I lose.

Racism kills people. It kills people!

I just like playing guys, normal dudes. That's the stuff that I really enjoy watching: when it feels grounded.

This industry's hard. The world is hard. Being young and black is tough.

A lot of time, people enter the most depressing situations, and they are the funniest people on Earth, because they have to be. It's a coping mechanism.

I think that's all you do as an actor. You give ingredients for the edit, and the edit's the stew, and they try to make a meal out of it. That's all you are. You just throw things in. This is an idea, this is an idea.

What you want to do is make people talk, start a conversation.

I think the word 'diverse' is a cancerous word because it's life. It's a PC way of saying 'non-white,' and it ultimately suggests that white is the standard.

I like three-dimensional characters - it's just more interesting when you get on set.

Sometimes I'll work in America, sometimes I'll work in England. What's important is fulfilment. I just want to tell stories.

When I need a reality check, I call my mum.

A lot of people have an opinion on scripts, but they aren't equipped to diagnose what the problems are. You realize that scriptwriting is such a specialist subject, but because it's so common, everyone thinks that they can talk about that. I think it's something that writers only know, that they can see.

My experience growing up in London and growing up in a working class background, is that when people are down and out, that's when they're probably the funniest. They have to be. That's what they do to cope, to find joy, cause they don't feel the joy inside. Or they use humor to keep people out.

I don't think writing stops until the film is out. In the edit, it's another draft. [The script] is the food for set, and then the set is food for the edit, and the edit is food for the screen. It's constant, and this is just the first stage of it.

A lot of black men have problems being emotionally vulnerable because of the boundaries and parameters that have been put onto them by society.

Improv is like writing. It's actually a different discipline to acting. It helps acting greatly, but it's completely different. It's the same side of your brain when you write as when you improv.