127 Quotes by David Oyelowo

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.

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

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.

I certainly don't feel there's a distinction to be made between a television and a film actor. I think there's a distinction between great actors and not so great actors. But I really think if you watch a person working in television give a wonderful performance, that person is f - ing great, because there is no time.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

Whether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do.

As you know, Sunday at 11 o'clock is the most segregated hour in America. You have black churches; you have white churches; you have Hispanic churches. It's not really reflective of the world we live in, by and large, in America.

I love tennis, love it!

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in the USA is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery and the injustices of segregation and racism generally.