127 Quotes by David Oyelowo

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.

Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine.

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

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

I hear God as an audible voice.

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.

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.

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

I've been an actor for 14 years now and a lot of that time was spent in theatre and television. Then I moved to L.A. to try and build upon that and it's starting to pay off!