If you’re going to play human beings, and you’re going to play them three-dimensionally, you have to show every side of them. David Oyelowo Read Quote
Not every film I do is going to be like ‘Selma,’ but every film I do can be edifying, can be something that points toward I believe to be true. I’m not one to shy away from darkness in movies as long as there is light. David Oyelowo Read Quote
Generally speaking, we as black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient when we are not being leaders or kings or in the center of our own narrative driving it forward. David Oyelowo Read Quote
Although I am a Christian, with what religion has become – a tool for so much of the bad stuff – I just say to people that I’m a person of faith. David Oyelowo Read Quote
If my history, my indisputable British history, has never been visited, where does that put me? If we are only going to look at things that need a revisit, you are wiping me out of this country’s history. That is unacceptable to me. David Oyelowo Read Quote
I’ve never, ever taken a role for money purposes or for some bizarre notion of what may be the kind of career move that would open things up for me. If I don’t believe in it, I can’t do it because I won’t be good in it if I don’t believe in it. David Oyelowo Read 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. David Oyelowo Read Quote
I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person. David Oyelowo Read Quote
