Quotes by Djimon Hounsou

About Djimon Hounsou:

Djimon Gaston Hounsou is an actor, model, and Beninese expatriate in the United States, who has been nominated for two Academy Awards.
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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.

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

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I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

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We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.

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As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.

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One of the things I find extremely challenging about the continent of Africa is that when the immediate needs and the social needs of people are not met, that kills dreams, and it's all about survival.

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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?

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A lot of times, we also have to live and work. You have to make money to pay rent. In that respect, I don't think you can be so demanding. Those great stories are not the normal stories that come on a daily basis. It's a struggle to land those roles....

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Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

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I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.

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Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

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School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I stopped going to school as a way of saying I was mature, a way of saying I was going to choose who I wa...

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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.

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If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.

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My passion is more about bringing the stories out from the African continent mixed with the West.

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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 ...

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

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Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

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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.

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I feel like Africans are too often portrayed as people on the National Geographic channel: the image is of an African man in a loincloth chasing a gazelle. It's not intentionally racist; I wouldn't call it racist at all. It's a lack of understanding ...

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Author Bio

  • NameDjimon Hounsou
  • DescriptionBeninese-American actor and model
  • AliasesDjimon Gaston Hounsou
  • BornApril 24, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor