Michael B. Jordan Quotes

My dreams are huge, man. I dream all day every day. Do I want to get into restaurants one day? Yeah! Do I want to get into hospitality and have my own hotels? Yeah, I do!

I come from nothing. I come from sleeping in the kitchen with my family with the oven open to keep us warm during winter, you know? When you come from that background, all this extra stuff is just… extra stuff, you know?

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.

As a naturally reserved and quiet person, it’s definitely a challenge being thrust into this atmosphere of celebrity and everything that comes along with that. Some parts I’m resisting more than others but can’t for much longer, so I’m just trying to find a way to make sense of it all.

I think history repeats itself. There’s a constant conversation between the oppressed and the oppressor. No matter what your field is, whether it’s gender equality, the Time’s Up movement, or diversity casting, it’s always going to be a back-and-forth battle.

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

Definitely, as I get older and my taste buds change, I want to do different things. I’m not ready for directing yet, you know, maybe when I get my big boy voice; I don’t have that yet, but right now definitely producing for sure.

I was born in Orange County – in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coast. My first two years were in California, but I claim East Coast. I’m sorry, I don’t rep California.

I’m an athlete; I’ve got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn’t have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.

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

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

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.

You work on a show like ‘All My Children’ – we know what it is, but you’re still able to grow outside of it. It’s the perfect situation. I learned. I grew as an actor. I worked with professionals. I got paid.

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