Words matter. These are the best Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m a thinker.
I kind of just skyrocketed out of graduate school.
I’m so thankful every day.
I just want to do work that gets people excited and makes them feel things, no matter their economic or racial background.
I wanted to be Michael Jackson as a kid.
I have a lot of fun playing quote unquote villains because I think the bad guys get to have more fun, right?
I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn’t expect it to escalate so rapidly. In my mind, it was like, ‘He’ll pull through.’ When he didn’t, I didn’t understand. I was 21, and my best friend had died.
For the things that I’ve been involved in, most of it has really been – it’s been a mixture of action and then drama.
I had taken an acting class at Berkeley – I was on the track team, and a friend of mine on the team said, ‘You should take an acting class. It’s just like recess.’ So I viewed it as a simple credit.
I surprise myself by the things I get excited by.
I think that everybody likes the bad guy.
I did not sit down and watch ‘Baywatch’ growing up. But I do specifically remember it coming on, and I remember it going off. I watched something that came on right before and then going back to that channel to watch what was coming on afterwards.
I kind of assumed all of Australia was like the Gold Coast – so I was telling people Australians just work out and go to the beach. Like, Australia has it figured out! But then I went to Sydney, and it was nothing like the Gold Coast – but I still loved it.
My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures.
