“It’s great when people appreciate your work, but I don’t know how seriously to take it.”

The amazing thing is that I found something so early that I can support myself doing.

It’s interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man… life-changing, but I’m just me within that.

How the governing body of a town, or a nation, controls us through fear.

Observe and kind of retain it, and study it without feeling like I’m studying it.

Because it’s up to the journalist not only to understand what I’m trying to convey, but to convey that understanding through their process.

I think you have to be fair with one another. It’s unfortunate when someone does something that’s not authentic, or not there for any reason other than to draw attention.

There are the obstacles of your position as an actor.

It made me have a much greater understanding of loss, of loneliness.

My parents have raised me with a sense of what’s really important and have given me decent values, and I’m comfortable, but I haven’t lived an excessive lifestyle in the least. And I’ve kept my expenses to a minimum so that I have the freedom to wait.

So far, it’s an interesting ride, and I’m curious to see what I can find next.

Obviously I’m not there to pick up anybody, but I’m not afraid to hang out in a predominantly gay establishment.

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography,

Not being a commodity enough to be hired by the big directors for projects that have some kind of integrity.

Being just yourself means you’re unselfconscious in that moment.

Because the successful actors who’ve been in the game for a while want those roles.

I always had an actor within me.

I tried to give my career a shot from Barranquilla, but the musicians would never show up. It was just not taken seriously.

I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.

The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

Toyin Falola has given us what is truly rare in modern African writing: a seriously funny, racy, irreverent package of memories, and full of the most wonderful pieces of poetry and ordinary information.

I’m sure all actors have trouble. The guy who always plays the funny guy, he wants to be taken seriously. And there’s the action guy who wants to do serious stuff. Everyone’s grass is greener.

If I don’t finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something’s seriously wrong.

All the time. I feel like I’m not taken seriously.