Riz Ahmed Quotes

• Bandwagons roll through our lives. Its up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.

  Riz Ahmed

  Up To You, Bandwagon, Our Lives

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• I think creativity is something that best happens when you have clear parameters. If you're not confined by anything then it's meaningless. You've got to rap over the beat, or you've got to color within your canvas. You pick the canvas size first. That makes most sense to me.

  Riz Ahmed

  Rap, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It's crazy how we always hate the things closest to us.

  Riz Ahmed

  Hate, Crazy

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I'm working it out, man. I'm working through some stuff, trying to find my way like everyone.

  Riz Ahmed

  Men, Trying, Stuff

  Source: screenrant.com

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• First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True Lies.' Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. 'Smashes' stereotypes. That's where I've come into the game.

  Riz Ahmed

  Lying, Games, Drug

  "Riz Ahmed: actor, rapper, ranter". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.

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• The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

  Riz Ahmed

  People, Trying, Acting

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• There's this thing, something in the water in America that is so intoxicating as well, that's like your dreams can come true. You can have it all. You can be the master of your destiny. There's this thing it encourages - this illusion of your significance.

  Riz Ahmed

  Dream, Destiny, Water

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.

  Riz Ahmed

  Character, Reflection, Acting

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• The racism in South Asia is the most specific racism in the world. It's like racism against a slightly different language group. It's like micro-racism.

  Riz Ahmed

  Racism, Different, World

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouraging... They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.

  Riz Ahmed

  Men, Rights, People

  "Riz Ahmed: actor, rapper, ranter". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.

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• No-one gets a job at 16 and stays in it until 60 any more; we're connected to more people simultaneously than ever before, whether online or on our phones. We wear so many different hats within one day, one week, a lifetime.

  Riz Ahmed

  Jobs, Phones, People

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• The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.

  Riz Ahmed

  People, Doubt, Acting

  "Q&A: Riz Ahmed". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2010.

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• I think that in an Internet age, content is content. As long as you can stand up on the merits of what you're doing right at that moment and aren't just relying on your success in doing something else, it's all good; people will respect you.

  Riz Ahmed

  Thinking, Long, People

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• The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don't believe what you're saying, it hears it. If you don't believe it, it sees it in your eyes, it hears it in your voice that there isn't the conviction there.

  Riz Ahmed

  Believe, Eye, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.

  Riz Ahmed

  Weekend, Winning, Thinking

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• I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.

  Riz Ahmed

  Rap, Inspiration, Stuff

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• I have always been restless, had a lot of energy.

  Riz Ahmed

  Energy, Restless

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