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Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.

America Destroyed Habitat Honest
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

Amount Business Creates Film
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Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.

Bad Create Green Lack
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

American American Public Beyond Conversation
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.

Actor Again Always Form
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Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

Able Acting Actually Creative
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The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.

Evening Higher Life Morning
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No one knows what women want!

Knows No-One Want Women
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Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

Coffee Coffee Shops Communities Figuring
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I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.

Coast Gulf Gulf Coast Louisiana
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A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
Bit Crazy Happen Lot
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Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.

Aesthetically Appeal Appealing Banished
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I grew up as a country boy.

Boy Country Country Boy Grew
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I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

Being Fighting Hopefully Move
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What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

Doing What Is Planet
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.

Certain Energy Kind Phenomenal
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

Affected Attention Attention Span Brain
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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.

Actor Any Cringe Earn
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

Ambitious Calls Cause Device
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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.

About Actor Correct Do The Right Thing
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Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.

About Anyone Because Big
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

Album Every Get I Can
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

Baltimore Boy East Expect
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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.

About Fans Get Just
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It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'

All Day Back Because Business
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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.

Bottle Go Gonna Jail
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I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

Ambitious Anyone Arrogant Competition
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

Always Been Just Making
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Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

Acting Creativity Music Same
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The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.

Album Arm Band Culture
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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.

Again Come Film Good
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The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.

Always Black Change Everything
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

General I Love Love Nike
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I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

Because Call Circus Go
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I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.

About Across America Behind
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When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

Apology Body Care Characters
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There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

Argument Big Character Director
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You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

Actor Been Better Bigger
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
Countries Knows No-One Some
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It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.

Actually Criminal How Ignored
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I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

Accent Could Get Go
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
African Hold Our Shape
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
Bad Never School Bookworm
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The less I talk about being black, the better.

About Being Better Black
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I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.

About Act Actor Because
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

Actor Been Between Black
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Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

Beach Going Jamaica Now
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The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

About American Bad Bad Guys
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The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

Am England Excellent Green
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It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

Could Feel Grammy Night
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