Top 33 Lakeith Stanfield Quotes

Hip-hop is not all ‘2 Chainz’ – although ‘2 Chainz’ is awesome. How he does that with metaphors, I don’t know.

I’ve done music since I would sit and make songs on my computer mic when I was 11.

Have you ever heard of ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?’ I would like to play Sidney Poitier’s role – I love that role.

I want to be in some Willy Wonka-type weird stuff, a role where I’m an alien. Anything that’s new and challenging and real. I like real stuff.

When I was little, when I was a toddler or something, I would watch ‘Jason’s Lyrica’ lot.

It’s a hard thing when you’ve got guns pointed at you, to still stand up for what you believe in. Jimmie Lee and his family did that, and several others.

For me, life is like an act within itself. Everything I do is an act. Where I’m going is an act.

I really like watching myself a lot because it gives me an opportunity to see it from outside the flesh, and when I view it like that, I can be a lot more cynical and see the things that need to be attacked.

I wanted to be as genuine as possible because all those people like Jimmie Lee Jackson – me, Mike Brown, all these people – we’re all the same; we’re not much different.

My two little twin brothers have autism, so I grew up around it and misunderstood it for a long time.

My focus is anything that allows me to express myself. Rap, dance, photography. Those are my forms of expression.

I’m in this music duo called Moors.

My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I’m writing to his beats.

Just listening and going back and forth and exchanging ideas with people. It’s a beautiful thing. This is what’s really important.

We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of Englishmen, and we would sip tea and act like we were rich in front of the family, and they thought it was just hilarious, the level of perception that we had about things that we’d never experienced.

I’m a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I’m just so fortunate to do whatever I’m doing.

I’ve been fortunate to get involved with ‘Short Term 12.’ I was just a young teenager on the Internet, clicking on anything that had the word ‘actor’ in it. One day, someone called me in for a movie audition.

I’ve always been super expressive, and I’ve always liked to express myself any way I can.

Victorville gave me opportunity to go inside and explore my imagination a bit.

I was kind of a weird kid in high school. I didn’t have many friends in my age group because all they wanted to do was fight and have riots.

I write poetry, and I put it to a beat – I mean, that’s what they call rap.

I love ‘Watch the Throne,’ because Kanye was acting so ratchet.

Some people look like they’re lost causes, but they’re not. Even if they’re in a messed up situation, the one little thing you do to help can go a long way.

The prison industrial system, things like that are cleverly put in place to attempt to marginalize a certain group of people – and it’s not only black, it’s replete across the American society.

Although rap is about boasting, it’s also about honesty and expressing your emotions.

I grew up very poor in a fractured family that was dysfunctional on both sides, but I sort of put up these reflectors to most of the negative things that have occurred in my life. I don’t carry around much baggage.

When you’re talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it’s the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.

You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don’t have a guide by which to channel that energy, then a lot of times, it’s futile.

I always knew I’d be an actor. I always knew I’d at least be on a big screen somewhere.

I’m from Victorville – it’s about an hour-and-a-half away from Los Angeles, up in the desert. They call it Victimville because it’s kind of violent. It’s a beautiful place, though. It’s quiet.

I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I’ve always thought – while I’m watching people perform – of what I would do.

I was born in San Bernardino in summer of ’91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Victorville.

Music is something I do full-time in real life. I was doing music long before I was even thinking about acting.