I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent…

- Djimon Hounsou

We all have our issues, no one gets away from facing their own issues, so that we can advance. Nothing is given lightly, and everything has a repercu…

- Djimon Hounsou

The first time you see the film it takes you right back to those times and those moments. It's very difficult to be objective about the work because …

- Djimon Hounsou

I am happy, and I have many reasons to be extra-happy nowadays. Life is calm, and the career is good and taking its course. And things are moving, th…

- Djimon Hounsou

There is a real problem with the lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can…

- Djimon Hounsou

I was just a very torn child, very wounded in so many areas, with no family support. I happened to the be the fifth child of my family. So everybody …

- Djimon Hounsou

School bored me. Being educated and being intelligent are two different things. I thought I was smart enough. And I wanted to be an entertainer. I st…

- Djimon Hounsou

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of…

- Djimon Hounsou

The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.

- Djimon Hounsou