Top 35 David Oyelowo Quotes (2024 Update)

David Oyelowo Quote: “I love tennis, love it!”

1. “I love tennis, love it!”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.”

2. “Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.”

3. “Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I hear God as an audible voice.”

4. “I hear God as an audible voice.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “For me, I’m always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?”

5. “For me, I’m always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It’s such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough. I went to drama school with so many great actors who are not doing it anymore and it’s circumstantial.”

6. “I do think opportunity breeds bravery. It’s such a competitive profession, no one owes you anything, talent in itself is not enough. I went to drama school with so many great actors who are not doing it anymore and it’s circumstantial.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I love that as a black person I’ve experienced not being a minority. I think that’s helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.”

7. “I love that as a black person I’ve experienced not being a minority. I think that’s helped me to combat the minority mentality people can have here, which can stop them scaling the heights.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “Don’t send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend. I just won’t do that.”

8. “Don’t send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend. I just won’t do that.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don’t get made.”

9. “I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don’t get made.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “Asher means ‘happy and blessed’ which embodies my eldest. Caleb means ‘stubborn and tenacious dog’ and I can’t even tell you how much that is my little boy! It was a useful warning.”

10. “Asher means ‘happy and blessed’ which embodies my eldest. Caleb means ‘stubborn and tenacious dog’ and I can’t even tell you how much that is my little boy! It was a useful warning.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.”

11. “My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in ‘My Left Foot.’ That was the equivalent of seeing Haley’s Comet for me. I just couldn’t understand how that was possible.”

12. “I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in ‘My Left Foot.’ That was the equivalent of seeing Haley’s Comet for me. I just couldn’t understand how that was possible.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “One of the occupational hazards of being an actor, the reason why so many actors are insecure, is that the only way we know we’re good is when other people tell us.”

13. “One of the occupational hazards of being an actor, the reason why so many actors are insecure, is that the only way we know we’re good is when other people tell us.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I’m putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I’ve done. I want to be able to stand by it.”

14. “I am a father, I am very aware of the things that I’m putting out in the world knowing that one day my children will watch the work that I’ve done. I want to be able to stand by it.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I admire many actors, though I don’t think there’s anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I’m really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I’m very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star’s career combined.”

15. “I admire many actors, though I don’t think there’s anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I’m really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I’m very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star’s career combined.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I don’t have a tailor, but I do love clothes.”

16. “I don’t have a tailor, but I do love clothes.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.”

17. “Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “If you merely focus on what we already know, then it’s not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you’re good.”

18. “If you merely focus on what we already know, then it’s not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you’re good.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors – some of the best actors in the world – can’t bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can’t relate to that.”

19. “I seem to be able to disassociate my insecurities. I know a lot of actors – some of the best actors in the world – can’t bear to watch themselves and I have to say I can’t relate to that.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “We can’t afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.”

20. “We can’t afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on. You cannot perpetually stay in that place of blame, otherwise it’s just a downward spiral.”

21. “There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on. You cannot perpetually stay in that place of blame, otherwise it’s just a downward spiral.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it’s presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.”

22. “I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it’s presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I know for a fact the reason I’m an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw something that I did, in youth theater or some small play somewhere, and said, “You’re good.””

23. “I know for a fact the reason I’m an actor is because one, two, maybe three people when I was younger saw something that I did, in youth theater or some small play somewhere, and said, “You’re good.””

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I think it’s vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn’t the centre of my life.”

24. “I think it’s vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn’t the centre of my life.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I’m one of those actors who says, “Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don’t care where you’re putting it. Television show. Movie. Projected on the back of someone’s garage.” If that’s where the work is that’s exciting to me and moving, I want to be there.”

25. “I’m one of those actors who says, “Point me toward the work that matters to me and I don’t care where you’re putting it. Television show. Movie. Projected on the back of someone’s garage.” If that’s where the work is that’s exciting to me and moving, I want to be there.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “Considering that I’m British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.”

26. “Considering that I’m British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “There’s a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it’s a very valuable thing.”

27. “There’s a nimble quality to the way a television actor can work. When that muscle gets strong it’s a very valuable thing.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I was sometimes called ‘coconut’ when I was at school.”

28. “I was sometimes called ‘coconut’ when I was at school.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer.”

29. “I think until Britain acknowledges just how much of a presence black people had here before the Sixties, then there are certain stories that are not going to be inclusive of what I have to offer.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “That’s what’s so satisfying about acting. You can come as prepared as you like, but there’s no accounting for what’s going to come at you from the other actor. That’s part of the joy and the play of it. If you don’t have that it’s a different kind of performance.”

30. “That’s what’s so satisfying about acting. You can come as prepared as you like, but there’s no accounting for what’s going to come at you from the other actor. That’s part of the joy and the play of it. If you don’t have that it’s a different kind of performance.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.”

31. “I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “I like to think of myself as a physical actor.”

32. “I like to think of myself as a physical actor.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “You’re always looking for roles and other creatives who are going to be challenging to you, because you’re always a better actor after the experience.”

33. “You’re always looking for roles and other creatives who are going to be challenging to you, because you’re always a better actor after the experience.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.”

34. “You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.”

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David Oyelowo Quote: “One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.”

35. “One of the things the BBC does better than anyone is period drama.”

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