You watch yourself age and its hard to feel like a sex symbol. – Idris Elba
It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and thats a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing? – Idris Elba
The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and thats really excellent – not high-budget movies, but movies none the less. – Idris Elba
Theres the argument that you can relate to someone whos 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. – Idris Elba
Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean youre very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people. – Annie Lennox