Michael B. Jordan Quotes

I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.

I'm definitely a lover, but I fight when I have to - for something or someone.

As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?

Do as much homework as you can. Learn everybody's job and don't just settle.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

You know, you can try and plan [filming] as much as you want, but you get there on game day and you get thrown a curve ball, I guess, hey, the game plan goes out the window. You've got to adapt.

Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.

Just us as people, we're different around different people and in different environments.

I think redemption is about righting a wrong, and in that pursuit it's about trying. You can stumble, you can make mistakes, but it's about trying to do the right thing.

As an actor, you always dream of having material that showcases what you can do.

I've never been the kind of guy to hype myself up. It's just not my thing.

I encourage first time filmmakers to be ambitious and take chances and risks, because you never know where your career is going to go.

I think everybody wants to be their own person and be an individual.

Sometimes you've gotta hide the medicine in the food. You can't slap somebody in the face with facts, all the time. It's too harsh.

I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.

I think everyone starts in the mailroom at some point! It's a right of passage. Your boss has to throw something at you and order you around for at least two years.

The world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

I think that humanity is at an all-time low in how we value life, especially among young Black people. We just don't really value each other's lives .

I've always wanted to direct and as I grow and I get older and I get older I just want to let that evolve.

I haven't been down to Navy Pier in such a long time. I know that's probably the touristy thing to do, but it just reminds me so much of 2000 when I was here shooting ["Hardball"].

I'm extremely blessed. There's a lot of people trying to exactly what I'm doing, but I'm a part of that 9.1 percent that's actually having their dream come true. I just don't take that for granted.

Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and ask me what I thought.

Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene.

I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.

It may not happen in my lifetime, but if I can play a part in moving things along, then I feel I've done a good job.

I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.

I want people to leave the theater and think, "How can I be a better person?" That's the only way things are going to improve.

I'm a comic book fan.

Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.

I like the old '90s music.

I was born with rhythm but I don't know if - I'm not a break dancer.

My mother's in my life, but at the time you imagine your mom passing away, not being there ... as a kid you try to think of something that hurts you the most ... It was just a tool [in "Hardball"].

Johnny Storm is such an iconic character. There's a lot of personality traits and things to him that people are really going to look forward to seeing.

You substitute certain things from your own personal life to get you to that mental place and that emotional state. At that time [Brian Robbins] went for the home run, the grand slam [in "Hardball"].

As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want to direct.

I was born and raised in the Bay Area. It's the place I got a deep, deep affection for.

I definitely want to do films. To see a character out from beginning to end in a matter of a hundred somewhat pages and then move on to the next role, is fascinating.

I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a lot of different things!

That's one of the fun parts of becoming an actor: You can become whoever you want to be.

Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.

I want to do more films.

Playing a bad guy would be fun, I'm not going to lie. I'd definitely do that in a heartbeat, because it's so out of my nature.

Acting I'll do forever, but I want to produce and stuff as well.

[Chris Evans] is doing an amazing job with "Captain America." I really enjoy those films as well so that's kind of pretty much where that was.

I think it's just easier for people to put you in a box or a lane because you look similar. I think that's unfair for anybody in any situation.

Now if I cry on screen I think it's mint. Because I think that's how that person would feel at that time. And if it doesn't, then it just doesn't happen.

In terms of experience with the police, everybody got those. It's such a reality.

That's probably why my face was looking so crazy when I was crying [in "Hardball"] because it was some real.

I can't sing worth a lick, so I don't know if I would be allowed in the ["The Mickey Mouse Club"].