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I'd be really honored to do more LGBTQ stories.
Michael Jackson has been my idol since before I could even walk.
I have a lot of brothers, and three or four of them love 'The Flash'.
Sydney is full of the craziest and most talented artists of all kinds.
I think what's really important is valuing friendships and family a lot.
I didn't grow up with my dad so I don't know much at all about my heritage.
My main advice is, if it's something you really want to do, then just go for it.
If you truly love something, fight for it every day, as long as it makes you happy.
Hearing that you fit into someone's idea of a superhero is a huge confidence builder.
If you really are passionate about it, you're just going to find a way to make it happen.
If you're gonna take in the love, you've gotta take in the hate. Or at least recognize it.
You have to go through tough experiences and go through some battles, in order to be stronger.
I don't really know anything about fashion, I just kind of wing it and do what I want at the time.
I respect anyone who achieves something that countless others have dared to try before and failed.
I hope we can all learn to embrace who we are & not judge people who aren't exactly the same as us.
You can live your dreams, and you can believe in magic. You can live your dreams, and you can be yourself.
'The Flash' comics are visually amazing and so well done. I wish I had been introduced to them when I was growing up.
Spent way too many years hating myself, thinking I was less valuable because I was different... which is just untrue.
I just pack up my pantry with lots of Oreos and other chocolate treats to disguise the fact that I don't have Tim Tams.
In terms of being Australian, I think a big part of it is the determination to prove yourself, just like Aussie actors.
Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.
You can live your dreams and wear dresses. You can live your dreams and kiss the one that you love no matter what gender they are.
I live in a one bedroom apartment by myself which is cool. I like to have my stuff exactly where I want it, so living alone is good for me.
No one really had to encourage me to become an artist; it was just something I knew I had to do. I was drawn to things that seemed impossible.
I love music. I seriously cannot wait until the day comes that I get to perform around the world for people, I've wanted to do that my whole life.
Aussie culture is pretty relaxed in general, but at the same time people know how to work really hard to go above and beyond what's expected of them.
I record into my phone as soon as I hear a track. Melody comes first for me, and then my gibberish usually forms into lyrics and a concept from there.
I always find time to hang with friends at least once a week or just watch TV and play video games. The combination of Netflix and food is just the best.
I've become bored of being insecure, ashamed, scared... no one should feel like that about themselves, especially when there is so much good life to live.
I started writing when I was, like, eleven. We couldn't afford private lessons, so I had to teach myself how to sing through recording songs on GarageBand.
Sometimes I fall into the trap of keeping too much to myself, but I think it's important to preserve certain things, it leaves something to the imagination.
I'm living for myself, everything I do is to achieve my goals, so I'd love to stop caring so much about what I want by then and maybe focus on a bigger picture.
When we have a lot of the running, which we do on green screen, that is actually the hardest... I swear I have, like, four separate scenes in a row running, and I'd only done one at a time before.
I reckon my fear landscape would be me having to jump out of a plane or having to skydive. I would see that as one of the scariest things ever. And then also, I'm really not a fan of spiders and bugs.
I think younger fans can't quite grasp that's what you do as an actor. They're like, 'It doesn't make sense. How can he talk like this when he talks like that on the show!' It's really cute, actually.
L.A. is cool because its still got the beaches and stuff like Sydney. But I can't get Tim Tams. They're, like, these chocolate biscuits with chocolate on the inside and on the outside, and they are the best.
Once I wrapped 'Insurgent', I went to Boston and shot a film called 'The Finest Hours.' It's based on a real story in 1952 about a Coast Guard mission to rescue these sinking ships that are caught in a blizzard.
I suffered a lot from social anxiety, and being on set was really scary to me. That fear can cause limits in your art and your performance because you're not going all in because there is this little thing in your head.
I grew up with my mom, and my mom had six kids, and I was the youngest, but I had a different father than my brothers and sisters, and I only met him when I was ten years old. Then he introduced me to his other children.
People often expect that I should know a lot of things because I'm black. I don't really explain it to people, but it's like, I'm from Australia, my Mum's Aussie, and I grew up with five other Aussie brothers and sisters.
I actually don't label myself, but... Some people call me queer; some people call me bisexual, whatever it is now. I'm happy with all of it 'cause it all sort of represents me, in a way. I spent a majority of my life in the closet.
I originally went up for a role on the spinoff show, 'Legends of Tomorrow,' and that led me to audition for Wally West in 'The Flash'. I enjoy auditioning in general, but this was a particularly fun process because it was so unexpected.
America was always a huge goal, if not the goal. I always wanted to move to America. I always wanted to come here and see what opportunities were around. I really only got a couple of auditions a year when I was in Australia, for acting work.
There's a lot to the story. And there are a lot of things I've learned about myself and about love, and I'm really grateful for the lessons, and I hope I can share that through art. I look for projects that allow me to do that, whether it's music or acting.
I was the youngest of the house that I grew up in, so I feel like, as the youngest, you have it pretty good. At the same time, I guess I required a lot of attention, being afraid of so many different things. So I was never seeking attention; I wanted the opposite.
I've had down periods in the past few years where I haven't been writing or working on music, and during that time something always felt like it was missing, but when I bring it back into the equation, everything in my life makes sense again. As corny as that sounds.
As much as I think that in the future we won't need labels, at the moment they're really important. So I'm making myself embrace that. I truly am proud to be queer. Even watching 'Queer Eye' is something that inspired me to say that. So that's the power of representation.
It's important that I work with people where they know why they're hiring me and that they're looking to create art without fear. Anyone who uses those excuses to not cast people or to create extremely stereotypical characters, they're creating out of fear, and to me that's really boring.
From, like, two, three years old, I was obsessed with Michael Jackson and just wanted to be on stage with him. And my mum put me in dance classes, but I had a lot of social anxiety and didn't want to be around people; I didn't like to look at anyone in the eye, so that was a difficult thing to get over.
Some people think 'Higher' is about literally getting high, and other people think it's more in a spiritual sense. To me, it's all that. To me, it was like I need to escape from this down state - emotionally, spiritually, mentally, everything. I want to be above this. Wherever we are now. I need to go up.