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When most people in the West think about Africa, is their first thought about the game reserves and who's chasing gazelles, or are they looking at Africans as people who are equally equipped to do great things, as in the West?

~Djimon Hounsou

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Some of the reason why you have so many divorces is that we tend to get married, most of the time, not for ourselves, but for others, or for how it looks to others.

~Djimon Hounsou

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Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

~Djimon Hounsou

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Rehearsals are set up so that you find out all the nuances about your character. You never want to beat yourself up. It's about finding the right direction, and most of the time, the right direction is not what you think is the right direction. That's why the director's there: to guide you there.

~Djimon Hounsou

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Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.

~Djimon Hounsou

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: April 24th, 1964

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