Gbenga Quotes & Sayings

Don't hesitate or talk about what you want to do. Just do it. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

'The Wire' was a combination of great TV and great theater. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

You want a place where you can say that this is your show that you invested in with other actors, but there's also that flexibility of being a recurring actor. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

Even if there isn't a God, I believe in the one we've created. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

Me personally, I like to wear as few artificially made products as possible. That stuff affects us, one way or another. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing; not that honor makes them excellent. — Thomas Aquinas

Think inside the work - outside the work — Brian Eno

When I was younger, I won a radio at a church raffle. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

I did a movie called 'The Savages' with Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, where I played a nurse, and it showed me in a different role from what I played on 'The Wire.' It showed my range as an actor. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

I want to work with non-profits that stimulate growth to the community. Whether it is economic growth, intellectual, or freedom. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

Work and life are not separate things and therefore cannot be balanced against each other except to create further trouble. — David Whyte

There is a God and there is a Devil. The Bible is the living word of God and there are more Antichrists living among us then you could ever believe or even truly understand — Stephen Biro

The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species. — Thomas Berry

I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo. — Eve Ensler

Sometimes life will give you ups and downs, but it's up to you to take them as they come. — Stephanie Tom

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

Freedom is not worth it without him. — Santino Hassell

Hershel Blau, son of the Chasidic wandering preacher, was not yet so distant from his father's world that he didn't know deep in his soul the yearning to fly. What is a Chasid's dance but one long, sustained attempt to arch away into suspended ascension, beyond laws of bodies, a thing of air and light and fire? (p. 261) — Rebecca Goldstein

My grandmother was a Muslim. My mother is Christian. And I don't know what I am, but I believe in God. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

If the project has good writing and is something I get excited about, then I'll do the role. And if it's for TV, I'll ask myself, 'Is it a show that I'd watch?' If it's a play or movie, I'll want to know if there's a good director attached. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

You lit me up like Vegas — Joss Stirling

I like writing, and I enjoy it. It's painful. You can't get around the pain of writing. I'm still trying to balance on what I think is my creative habit. It varies, but I do know that I need to continue. It helps me with my acting, and the writing helps me be invested in a different way. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

I don't need to be someone famous or George Clooney. I don't need to be any of these people to get involved in my community or reach out to one nationally. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

'Home' may be the best part and best movie I've ever had. I loved it. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

I guess I am a feminist of sorts. I love women so much, and I celebrate the feminine in me because I appreciate it so much. — Steven Tyler

I'm a very physical person. I'm very tactile. I wrestled in college, so a lot of my communication with the world comes through physicality - what I take in and what I put out there. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

Whether it's someone struggling with mental illness, someone struggling with poverty or struggling with their own limitations in their social behaviors, for some reason, I'm drawn to characters like that. — Gbenga Akinnagbe

The company Liberated People represents just not liberation of different nations around the world; it can be special liberation days. It can be what the company represents and helps highlight someone's personal liberation date. — Gbenga Akinnagbe