David Oyelowo Quotes

I'd love to do films, but I'd feel bad in my gut if I did anything just for the money. I want to wait for something I'm really passionate about, even if I don't work for a year.

I've already got my rent paid, and it's too late in my life for me to go around talking up stuff that I don't like or believe in.

I have always chosen roles that I believed in - not ones that I thought might further my career.

You have to do what you believe in.

Holding true to what you believe - even in a big city - is so important.

I'd never make something pointless that I don't believe in. I don't think I could do it.

I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.

My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

I do what I believe.

I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people.

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

I cannot do a film I don't believe in, however safe it might be.

It doesn't matter what you believe just so long as you're sincere.

I can't write what I don't believe in.

As long as it feels valid to me and feels sincere, I'll do what I do under the moniker of Nine Inch Nails if it's appropriate. I would hate to think I would ever be in a position where I'm faking it to get a paycheck.

I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.

I can sell anything that I totally believe in, but I'm a horrible salesman of something I don't believe in.

You have to believe in what you do. Take something you truly believe in and go about it in an honest way.

I am not that savvy, to be honest. I know what I believe in, and I try to follow people who do the same.

I will not sell anything ever again that I do not believe in. I'm not willing to do a job for pure financial gain. I've done that, and it wasn't worth it.

You have to be true to what you believe in.

I don't want to regret doing something that I don't believe in.

I'm a big person when it comes to doing what you believe in.

Being your own person and standing for what you believe is a critical aspect of a good professional life.

I have refused money sometimes for a film. I have refused films when I felt that it was not for me. When it was just a job or just about making money, I said no. I wanted to make every film count, and when you are true to yourself, this gives you a certain integrity and a certain reputation.