Top 30 O. T. Fagbenle Quotes

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.

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.

We moved back to Britain for my secondary education.

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.

‘The Interceptor’ is gritty but also entertaining. The action is great as well.

I’m not averse to a bit of travel.

Words can be an act of reductionism.

I’ve always had an explorative drive to my art, as opposed to wanting to achieve some certain goal.

I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.

My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.

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.

I really want to do Broadway.

‘The Interceptor’ has an excitement and grittiness to it, but it’s also very entertaining. It lives in this sphere of a slightly heightened reality where, although you completely identify and recognise all the characters in it, they’re fun and exciting to watch.

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.

I came to the States less to find fortune and fame and more to kind of have a life experience of seeing something new.

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.

Oakland’s got a lot of character.

My full name is Olatunde Olateju Olaolorun Fagbenle. I was named after my grandfather. It’s Yoruba, which is, like, southern Nigeria.

I’m interested in working with great people and exploring great themes in different mediums.

Reed Morano is an amazing woman and one of the most extraordinary people I’ve had the chance to work with.

‘Handmaid’s’ is the most profound television I’ve had the privilege to be a part of.

My whole life, I have considered myself a feminist.

I loved doing my own stunts, and so, as much as the insurance people would allow me, I would get involved.

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.

I think what often happens when people leave their spouse for someone else is they tend to go for the opposite of what they already have.

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.

As an actor, you can’t play a flashback; you can’t play someone’s memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person’s point of view.

Elizabeth Moss may very well be one of the best actresses I’ve had the privilege of standing opposite and sharing lines with.

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.’

I’m interested in colour-blind hiring of directors, producers, and writers. Go to the source. Then we won’t need to have conversations about colour-blind casting.