25 Quotes by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures.

I wanted to be an architect, and I ended up at my job in San Francisco, and if you would have asked me then, that was one of the greatest jobs that had happened to me in terms of my career.

I'm so thankful every day.

I did not sit down and watch 'Baywatch' growing up. But I do specifically remember it coming on, and I remember it going off. I watched something that came on right before and then going back to that channel to watch what was coming on afterwards.

For the things that I've been involved in, most of it has really been - it's been a mixture of action and then drama.

I have a lot of fun playing quote unquote villains because I think the bad guys get to have more fun, right?

I think that everybody likes the bad guy.

I'm from a place where young people traditionally do not have resources.

My performance, I believe, is about my duty to the script, and my duty to the story that we're trying to tell, and I try to do that in a way that is true, in a way that's going to hold up the script, and that's going to be fun for the viewers to watch.