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Idris Elba

You watch yourself age and it...

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

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Idris Elba

I wasn't bad at school, but I...

I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.

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Idris Elba

I'm rebelling against being h...

I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

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Idris Elba

Sean Connery wasn't the Scott...

Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.

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Idris Elba

If I was gonna go to jail, I ...

If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

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Idris Elba

I think there's a tendency fo...

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.

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Idris Elba

Bond? It is a bit like saying...

Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.

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Idris Elba

I'm a little sheepish about i...

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.

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Idris Elba

I lived in America for a long...

I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.

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Idris Elba

The only thing I change mainl...

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

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Idris Elba

I was into Spider Man when I ...

I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.

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Idris Elba

I love bikes. I used to own o...

I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.

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Idris Elba

You know, film is the ultimat...

You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

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Idris Elba

Are there differences between...

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

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Idris Elba

If you are going to call a fi...

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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Idris Elba

I tend to stay away from the ...

I tend to stay away from the comics.

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Idris Elba

I was really ambitious, so I ...

I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

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Idris Elba

As an actor, you're trained t...

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.

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Idris Elba

Yeah, I know, any time you he...

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.

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Idris Elba

There's the argument that you...

There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

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