The older I get, the more I dance like my dad, and I'm finding that suddenly cardigans are becoming more attractive to me.
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O. T. Fagbenle
Profession:
Actor
Born:
January 22, 1981
Nationality:
British
Quotes by O. T. Fagbenle
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We all fail, and we all have weaknesses. I think that's what helps us relate to characters we see on TV or read in books, is that we recognize our frailties within them and maybe don't feel so alone. We get to learn from their mistakes.
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My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.
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We moved back to Britain for my secondary education.
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Oakland's got a lot of character.
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My family is very nomadic - my mom, in particular, traveled the world as a young person, and her father before that, and I guess I have that inside me.
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I came to the States less to find fortune and fame and more to kind of have a life experience of seeing something new.
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My whole life, I have considered myself a feminist.
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It's funny because I was looking back on my Instagram,, and I saw that I had a bunch of feminist posts but that was all before 'Handmaid's Tale.'
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I'm hungry as an artist to find opportunities to contribute to the world in a more meaningful way than just numbing people through entertainment.
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I'm not averse to a bit of travel.
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I think the two main tools actors have are the imagination of what other people have gone through, to connect with and through research, and there's one's own experience.
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I think you can judge a man by the size of what offends him.
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Words can be an act of reductionism.
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It's hard for men sometimes to talk about feminism, just as it's hard for people who aren't from ethnic minorities to talk about racial prejudice. It's a difficult conversation to have, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have it.
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I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.
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We've seen from shows like 'Game of Thrones' that the book can become a seed, which you plant in the ground of great TV creators, and it can sprout out into a big tree.
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We have flaws, things go wrong, people's hearts get broken, people make mistakes, people fall in love with other people. And that's hard, but that's also part of life.
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I think, unfortunately, we've always lived in a world of massive inequality: inequality between the haves and the have-nots, inequality between men and women that not only exists temporally but geographically as well.
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I try to encourage myself to act in a way that supports gender equality, and I call that feminist. Whatever word people want to use to call that, I'm not really attached to a label.
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Reed Morano is an amazing woman and one of the most extraordinary people I've had the chance to work with.
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As a man, having a conversation about feminism can be tricky - the best I can do is to have assumptions and ask questions. You always run the risk of putting your foot in it.
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My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It's Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria.
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Television is obviously changing; the way we consume media is changing, so I think it's natural that we are going to try different styles.
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I really want to do Broadway.
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