Quotes by Noel Clarke - Page 1

I don't like doing things that are too easy.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Easy
Doing Things Like
Doing
Too
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Bullying isn't about size, it's about intimidation.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Bullying
Intimidation
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I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.
Noel Clarke / Actor
People
Trying
Who I Am
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You have to show the negative to show the positivity that comes from it.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Negative
Positivity
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I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Choices
Hard Work
Work Harder
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People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Criticise
Long
Talking
Wall
Me Long Day
All Day
Long Me Day
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I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Jobs
Rejection
Would Be
Ratio
Rejections
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I wouldn't say that I'm a jack-of-all-trades, master of none, but I wouldn't say that I'm brilliant at any.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Brilliant
Master
None
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After Kidulthood, I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Annoyed
Wells
Writing
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Let's start doing new and different things that enable us all to grow as a film culture and a community in total.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Community
Culture
Different
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After 'Kidulthood,' I was called in to a meeting and told that I didn't write women very well. I was very annoyed.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Annoyed
Meeting
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I allowed the actors to have freedom and sometimes change words if they needed to or thought that another word was more current.
Noel Clarke / Actor
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I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.
Noel Clarke / Actor
British
Important
Old Stuff
Stuff
Thinking
Me Important Doing
Batch
Film-Makers
Me New Important
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I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like 'Stop moaning and write something.'
Noel Clarke / Actor
Fed Up
Moaning
Seeing
Stories
Fed
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I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like “Stop moaning and write something.”
Noel Clarke / Actor
Feds
Stories
Writing
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I'm a nice guy to anyone I meet, until they show me they don't deserve niceness. I'll turn very quickly. But I'm pretty pleasant overall.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Deserve
Guy
Nice
Nice Guy
Pleasant
Show Me
Overall
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I think most people, no matter their status now, have big screen TVs, because they're the standard TVs now. And so why would you go to the cinema?
Noel Clarke / Actor
Big Screen
Cinema
People
Thinking
Standard
Screen
Status
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When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.
Noel Clarke / Actor
If I Could
Scripts
Tests
Writing
Myself See Know
Script
Test
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I don't think anyone expected me to get the BAFTA. The bookies didn't have me down. It's definitely made a huge difference in my career, but I don't dwell on it.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Careers
Differences
Thinking
Huge Difference
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'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Fiction
Mind
Pulp
Sequence
Watches
Beforehand
Blew
Pulp Fiction
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I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Men
Accepted
Actors
Australian
British
Decided
Directors
Best Men Me
Argued
Director
British Actors
Offered
Union
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I can't always be making 'British films.' Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?
Noel Clarke / Actor
Corsets
Event
Horses
Send
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I can't always be making "British films". Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?
Noel Clarke / Actor
Girl
Events
Horse
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I don't think I'm egotistical, and I know what my limits are: I'm a black guy who's probably losing his hair. But I'm happy to play roles that I'm given, and I'm happy to play roles that I write.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Egotistical
Hair
Limits
Losing
Thinking
Writing
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My past films came out on home entertainment in the U.S., so the next question was, how do we get a theatrical in the U.S.? Well, you put a monster in it. That will do it, because people love monster movies.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Entertainment
Theatrical
Love Home Movies
Monster
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I think that's important for all ages, to not be afraid of being an individual. I grew up on my own, as an only child, so early on I think I was quite capable of making decisions by myself and being an individual.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Capable
Children
Decision
Making Decisions
Only Child
Thinking
Ages
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I did 'Kidulthood' and 'Adulthood,' and that's what people wanted and expect me to always do. They want me to do 'hood films and be the guy swinging baseball bats and saying 'Yo Blood' and beating up others in the street.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Adulthood
Bats
Blood
Hood
Always Me People
Beating
Me Street People
Swinging
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I think the British industry is set up to support British film, if we make films that enable them to support it. If you don't make a commercial film, distributors can't get behind it. If they don't get behind it, the film doesn't do well.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Distributors
Film
Support
Thinking
Commercial
Enable
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As an actor, director or writer you never want to be doing one thing. To show that diversity and be able to do more than one thing, and to play different characters, is part of the job that I'm supposed to do. Hopefully, I can continue doing that.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Character
Different
Diversity
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I asked my media teacher, "You can make films out of sequence?" and he was like "Yeah! You can do whatever you want." I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like "Stop moaning and write something."
Noel Clarke / Actor
Teacher
Film
Writing
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All the young people grow up too fast and want to be able to do this, or that. When you get to the older age and you have a mortgage, bills, this and that you think: "If I had done that differently when I was younger, then I wouldn't be in this situation now."
Noel Clarke / Actor
Growing Up
People
Thinking
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The BFI recently did a study of the British films that have the most people of color in them in the last 10 years, and in the top 10, three of the films were my films. I've always been a glass-is-half-full person. I've always gone, "If people aren't going to do it, I'm going to do it".
Noel Clarke / Actor
Film
People
Study
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When people say to me: "Oh don't worry, if one door closes another one opens..." If one door closes for me, go through the window - I'm not interested in waiting around for people to give me opportunities. I try and make things happen and if I am given opportunities I take them and work harder.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Opportunity
Hard Work
People
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I would say to any young black , if you get a job and you're asked to work 100%, then you work 125% and don't complain about it. The moment you complain about it, then you don't really want to work. Always do more than you're asked to do and you'll get far in life - and that applies to all youth.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Black
Complaining
Youth
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It always seems that the generation below you is getting worse, which is why I had the worst character in the film Adulthood that said it. I don't remember speaking to my elders like that, because you never remember... actually our generation was quite bad because everyone else always seems worse.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Character
Film
Remember
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You'll never see me in any of the tabloids because I've made a conscious effort to stay out of that. I'm not interested in fame. I'm interested in hard work and letting my work speak for what I do. I've been in high-profile shows but you don't see stories on me because I don't go out and court them.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Effort
Hard Work
Speak
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I don't feel that I'm a role model. I'm just me. If people want to look up to me then that's their business. I'm not perfect and I don't consider myself to be a role model. But to be honest, I'd much rather my kids look up to me than look up to some rock star who gets off jail more times than is even funny.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Kids
People
Role Models
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When I write a project, it might be something that I want to do and then when I look at it, I'm actually like, "I kind of don't want to direct it." I don't know why, I still love it enough for it to be made and to support it, but I don't want to direct it. I just give it to other directors and they do a good job!
Noel Clarke / Actor
Giving
Support
Writing
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Generally, an indie film in the U.K. is put together much like in the states. We got a tax credit. You sell the domestic rights, which can be quite low, but it's enough to push you over the line. And you get a tax credit on top of that, and then you cobble it together with private equity or gap financing and things like that.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Credit
Equity
Financing
Rights
Together
Tax
Domestic
Gap
Indie
Indie Film
Low
Push
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I think now you see a lot more British films from the perspective of, I guess what would be considered "new" British people - people of color, Asian people. I think that's what's happening now, whereas 20 years ago it couldn't happen because it was still predominantly, "British film is about middle-class white families and what they do."
Noel Clarke / Actor
People
Perspective
Thinking
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If I'm given the opportunity of writing, directing and acting in the same film I would love to do it again. It's something I don't think that anyone else is doing in the country at this level... not many people are doing it in the world. I think if you check that out and find it's quite accurate, there's only a handful of people that actually are doing it.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Opportunity
Country
Writing
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As a man - no longer a teenager that can play those really young roles, but as a man - I think I've only just got good in the last three or four years. I only watch my old films because, as someone who wasn't trained, that's how I look at my mistakes; I see something and I go, "Well, that's not good," and I learn from my mistakes. Same with the writing and same with the directing.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Mistake
Teenager
Writing
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I'm always writing, but directing takes priority over everything, unless the acting is a job that lifts that whole brand. If I get a part in a big film with a big director and I was going to direct one of my one films, I would take the former job because that job will only help anything that I then intend to do. I think in the long run, directing is the thing that will outlive everything else. Maybe that and writing.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Running
Thinking
Writing
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What I want to do is make things that I think people want to watch. I'm a film fan, so I think I'm in touch with other film fans and that they might want to watch stuff. The other reason I really don't care is because no matter what you do in life, no matter what you wear, or what you say, people are going to like it or they're not. And that is all. Everything, down to the socks I chose today - people are going to like them or they're not and there's nothing you can do about that.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Care
People
Thinking
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I'm always willing to work that little bit harder to achieve what I need to achieve because I feel like it's a blessing for me to be here. I was never supposed to be here. I'm the black council estate kid, single parent, from West London, with friends that are in jail, friends that have committed heinous crimes, friends that are doing nothing. I'm not supposed to be here, therefore I have nothing to lose. I'm always going to work harder than everyone else because if it doesn't work, "So what?".
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Kids
Blessing
Hard Work
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I think one thing my mother always instilled in me was a sense of individuality. Being an only child, I never thought I had to rely on anyone. I was never afraid to be alone and I was never afraid to be my own person. So when all my friends were like, "Let's smoke weed," I was like, "I'm not doing it." It wasn't because I was trying to be a rebel or because I didn't like it or I was anti-drugs. I just didn't do it because I didn't want to do it, and if I didn't want to do it, I wasn't doing it. That was it.
Noel Clarke / Actor
Children
Mother
Weed
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