30 Quotes by Djimon Hounsou

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody was already grown and had left home already.

The lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world a little bit.

When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?

Even while modeling, I was still practicing kung fu and boxing as sports.

Some of the reason why you have so many divorces is that we tend to get married, most of the time, not for ourselves, but for others, or for how it looks to others.

Africa is a continent that provides so much for the existence of the rest of the world. We go around the world and cultivate so many things.

I happened to the be the fifth child of my family, so everybody was already grown and had left home already.

It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career.