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I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.

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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

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

The less I talk about being black, the better.

I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.

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

Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

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.

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

I tend to stay away from the comics.

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

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...

I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

The role of my agent has just been to get me in the room. If I can get in the room - say the character is just a charming man who lives next door - then I'll walk in there...

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