Ashley Walters Quotes

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Ashley Walters

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 30, 1982

Politics isn't about helping people, it's about maintaining whatever people have got, whatever it takes to maintain their position at the expense of us.

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I was angry when I was young, but I was never really that violent. I hardly ever fought, mainly because I wasn't very good at it.

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There's a lot of negative things which happen in the show we're not trying to lie about that, that's the beauty of 'Top Boy,' it's unapologetic.

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I'm inspired by the fact that for every kid we see committed to crime, there's kids determined to go to uni and not follow their peers.

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I gave up acting while I just pursued my music career.

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My mum was well-travelled, well-educated and made me understand from books, from my imagination and from just taking me away on holiday once a year, wherever she could, that the world was bigger than Peckham.

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As an actor you pull your socks up and look for the next job.

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As a rapper, you're taught and you practice being hard all the time. You're not crying on your tracks, you don't sound like Neyo singing an R&B song about what you've lost or whatever.

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I sit down on my sofa and I turn on 'Judge Judy.' That's my guilty pleasure. I could do a whole day of that.

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The fact that 'Small Island' is 'period' is amazing for me because it's something that I've never been involved with before. Also, half my family is Jamaican and this story is essentially a story about Jamaican people, and it's portraying a part of history that I was not that familiar with myself.

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Acting is something I feel good about doing, I'm lucky enough to love my job as well.

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The main thing I learned in jail was how much I love my kids, that I never want to be away from them again.

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I never wanted my kids to have the experience of not knowing me or where they came from. I never want them to wonder, 'Did he love me?' I want to be there at the pivotal moments, for them to know how proud I am of who they are becoming.

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I think it's difficult for people to understand that when you come from an impoverished background you're very limited in the way you think.

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Top Boy' didn't try to glamorise anything. It gave it to you how it was. But it also dealt with mental health, social situations, immigration.

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I don't want to force anyone to give me a job. I want to be the right person for the part.

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But I'm quite liberal as a dad.

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My son broke his arm. I couldn't do anything, couldn't be there. That's when I knew I was a bad parent. I was doing the same thing my dad had done to me.

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Once you've been at the top, you're always gonna know what it's like to be at the top. If you've never been at the top, you're not worrying about what it feels like being there.

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I find it really, really, really hard to have relationships with other men. That's one of my biggest problems. Women I seem to get on with quite well.

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