Riz Ahmed famous quotes

04-12-2025

You know my parents, man, they're just the most loving, encouragingâ€¦ They're like those people who define themselves through their role as parents before people in their own rights.
-- Riz Ahmed

#Men #Rights #People
My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, thats a reflection of another character.
-- Riz Ahmed

#Character #Reflection #Acting
The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.
-- Riz Ahmed

#People #Trying #Acting
The camera or the microphone in the booth is merciless. If you don't believe what you're saying, it hears it. If you don't believe it, it sees it in your eyes, it hears it in your voice that there isn't the conviction there.
-- Riz Ahmed

#Believe #Eye #Voice
First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True Lies.' Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. 'Smashes' stereotypes. That's where I've come into the game.
-- Riz Ahmed

#Lying #Games #Drug
No-one gets a job at 16 and stays in it until 60 any more; we're connected to more people simultaneously than ever before, whether online or on our phones. We wear so many different hats within one day, one week, a lifetime.
-- Riz Ahmed

#Jobs #Phones #People
I think that in an Internet age, content is content. As long as you can stand up on the merits of what you're doing right at that moment and aren't just relying on your success in doing something else, it's all good; people will respect you.
-- Riz Ahmed

#Thinking #Long #People
I think that with piracy and tighter funds being around, people are realising that the game to play is to try and win people's respect with bold film making and then win a special place in people's collections, rather than just having the biggest opening weekends.
-- Riz Ahmed

#Weekend #Winning #Thinking
I go to a lot of stand-up comedy. I find more inspiration from observational stuff than from rap.
-- Riz Ahmed

#Rap #Inspiration #Stuff
Bandwagons roll through our lives. Its up to you whether you jump on them unquestioningly or jump on them to overturn them and subvert them.
-- Riz Ahmed

#Bandwagon
I have always been restless, had a lot of energy.
-- Riz Ahmed

#Energy #Restless
The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself.
-- Riz Ahmed

#People #Doubt #Acting

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