Bokeem Woodbine Quotes

I got rejected from journalism school!

I had a bunch of other projects that I worked really hard on after 'Twilight,' and the magic just didn't hit.

You never know how films are going to do and it is daunting if I think about it.

Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

I know it's a big gamble, but I want to do good films.

There is a sense of shame that comes with unemployment. I didn't become a movie star, and I was a size 14.

There have been times when our career is uncertain, the film industry can be beautiful and judgmental at the same time. There are times when I thought of staying back and giving up.

My biggest goal is to keep playing characters that challenge me.

Sometimes you don't see the result that you expect.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

I got really bored of sitting around waiting for work or for the next movie to come along that only 100 people would see. I got bored of being skint, of twiddling my thumbs, wondering how to take my life to the next stage.

For me, especially, the choice of roles in all my films, even it's the same team, has been a risk.

There is no doubt that I feel bad when a film flops, but I can't sit back and not take up new work owing to that.

There are times when things are not going according to plan, and of course, you never want those times.

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

When I was young, I was like, 'I want to want to work with this director and that director'. I've stopped doing that. You put yourself in a place where you get disappointed.

I live in reality, and I know at any moment I could stop getting the phone calls and nobody wants to hear me sing or tell jokes anymore.

I know so many people that were really able to lead 'perfect' lives. They meet the right person, they make the babies, they get the jobs, they get the house and it's essentially a smooth ride. That really didn't happen for me.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit.

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.