Quotes by Djimon Hounsou - Page 1

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Africa
Continent
Opened
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Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Boxing
Modeling
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My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
African
Bringing
Continent
Mixed
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Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Diction
Tone
Trying
Accent
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It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Animated
Legacy
Extend
Feature
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I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Diamond
People
Way
Africa
More People
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I happened to the be the fifth child of my family, so everybody was already grown and had left home already.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Fifth
Grown
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If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Campaigns
Fashion
Iconic
Term
Calvin Klein
Images
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The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Kids
Men
Empty
Gym
Issues
Men And Women
Floor
Women Men Young
Young Men
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Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Existence
Africa
Continent
Cultivate
Provides
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The rocky time came right after I left school. I spent a lot of time at night navigating the streets of Paris trying to find something to eat.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Streets
Rocky
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As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Helping
Makeup
Affecting
Africa
Instrumental
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We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Aspire
Entertaining
Inspire
Marvel
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Some of the reason why you have so many divorces is that we tend to get married, most of the time, not for ourselves, but for others, or for how it looks to others.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Divorces
Get Married
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Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Embrace
Confident
Somewhat
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Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are, as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Embrace
Like You
Persons
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I am happy, and I have many reasons to be extra-happy nowadays. Life is calm, and the career is good and taking its course. And things are moving, things are moving ahead.
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Calm
Moving
Reason
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America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Running
America
Bunch
Chasing
Fields
National Geographic
Play
Africa
African
Geographic
Plain
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I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.
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Continents
Feels
West
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I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.
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Attributes
Elsewhere
Broaden
Evolving
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I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Home
Children
Fifth
Support
Torn
Wounded
Area
Grown
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One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.
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Survival
Africa
Continent
Immediate
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When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Chasing
Great Things
Reserves
Great Game People
Africa
African
Equally
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The first time you see the film it takes you right back to those times and those moments. It's very difficult to be objective about the work because you really have to remove yourself and see it a couple of times before you can really involve yourself in the story.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Couple
Firsts
Stories
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I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding another culture.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
National Geographic
African
Channel
Geographic
Intentionally
Portrayed
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School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I was going to become.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Bored
Different Things
Educated
Intelligent
Mature
School
Smart
Wanted
Me Way School
Choose
Saying
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A lot of times, we also have to live and work. You have to make money to pay rent. In that respect, I don't think you can be so demanding. Those great stories are not the normal stories that come on a daily basis. It's a struggle to land those roles. Everybody is looking for the good parts.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Work Good Respect
Basis
Daily Basis
Demanding
Good Parts
Great Stories
Rent
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Rehearsals are set up so that you find out all the nuances about your character. You never want to beat yourself up. It's about finding the right direction, and most of the time, the right direction is not what you think is the right direction. That's why the director's there: to guide you there.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Right Direction
Time Character Yourself
Guide
Nuances
Rehearsals
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The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.
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Genre
Heritage
Grow Up
Identify
Leaves
Same Thing
Specifically
Superheroes
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There is a real problem with the lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world, a little bit. It gives a certain social distance with your world.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Distance
Growing Up
Real
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I wanna begin saying a story about my son. I have a four-year old son who loves superheroes from Spider-Man to Iron Man to Batman. He's got all the costumes. One day he looks at me and says 'Dad, I want to be light-skinned so I could be Spider-Man. Spider-Man has light skin.' That was sort of a shock. This is why I am excited to be a part of the Marvel Universe, so I could be hopefully provide that diversity in the role of the superhero.
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Dad
Men
Son
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We all have our issues, no one gets away from facing their own issues, so that we can advance. Nothing is given lightly, and everything has a repercussion, as you're evolving. And, if anything, the sport itself is a great training, not only physically, but the mental discipline that it requires. The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids, and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor. It's amazing the spirituality that you get as a result of practicing and enjoying the sport. That's another plus.
Djimon Hounsou / Actor
Kids
Men
Sports
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