I’ve always been DJing; it’s just I’m making more of a push for it, making it more public. — Idris Elba

White actors still get way more money in Hollywood. It’s been that way for a very long time. I hope it’ll change, but it’s a matter of forcing that change. — Idris Elba

Every leading lady I work with, I’ll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album. — Idris Elba

I was in The Wire for three years, and I left at the highlight of that. — Idris Elba

In ‘Pacific Rim’ I had to have a haircut I wouldn’t usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film–that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times. — Idris Elba

Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, ‘I do music’, you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes. — Idris Elba

I get criticized for taking roles in films like Ghost Rider 2, but if you look at my résumé, dude, I’ve mixed it up as much as I can. — Idris Elba

Sean Connery wasn’t the Scottish James Bond, and Daniel Craig wasn’t the blue–eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don’t want to be called the black James Bond. — Idris Elba

I’m a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they’re like, ‘Oh, you’re so sexy,’ I just don’t get that. There’s no way one man can be universally sexy. — Idris Elba

What I like about their films is that you actually feel the momentum of whatever they’re shooting. So, if someone’s falling out a window, it gives the opportunity to show what that might feel like. — Idris Elba

Television is where I cut my teeth. — Idris Elba

It’s really funny because the same people who loved me as Stringer Bell were the same people that were watching Daddy’s Little Girls literally in tears. — Idris Elba

If I was gonna go to jail, I don’t want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I’ll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it. — Idris Elba

The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything’s sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always. — Idris Elba

I did a rendition of Billie Jean which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day. — Idris Elba

Television, for me, is a medium that I’m probably always going to be attached to, one way or another. — Idris Elba

I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing’s something that I love to do, but it’s not something that I pursue as a career. — Idris Elba

The English are good at bad guys–the James Bond–style villain, cunning, slow–burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it. — Idris Elba

I was on a well–beaten path of actors–what we all call ‘the Law and Order route’. I spent two years of auditioning for everything… and then ‘The Wire’ came up. — Idris Elba

As an actor, you’re trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you’re working with… — Idris Elba

I don’t get recognised that much yet in London, but when I do I get a real sense of achievement. — Idris Elba