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Ashley Walters Quotes
Ashley Walters Quotes
Ashley Walters
British
Musician
Born:
Jun 30
,
1982
About
Day
Love
Me
People
You
Acting is something I feel good about doing, I'm lucky enough to love my job as well.
Ashley Walters
Love
Good
Feel Good
Job
Enough
I Feel
About
Something
Feel
Well
Doing
To Love
Acting
Lucky
It's important for people to listen and take time to watch what's going on in these shows, especially the ones like 'Top Boy' that are painting an accurate picture.
Ashley Walters
Time
People
Picture
Important
Painting
Top
Take
Like
Boy
Accurate
Going
Listen
Shows
Watch
A lot of black actors will sit there and go, 'Every role is about being a gangster' - then they get an opportunity to write a script and they write about a gangster. You know... write about a superhero.
Ashley Walters
You
Opportunity
Will
Black
Sit
Every
Superhero
About
Write
Know
Go
Lot
Role
Get
Being
Script
Then
Gangster
Actor
Growing up without a father has made fatherhood harder for me.
Ashley Walters
Me
Father
Made
Fatherhood
Without
Up
Growing
Growing Up
Harder
Selling out is a myth. Bill Gates isn't selling out, is he? Richard Branson isn't selling out. Why can't black people make money?
Ashley Walters
People
Money
Black
Myth
Out
He
Make
Selling
Richard
Bill
Bill Gates
Why
Gates
I heard stories about my dad. I wondered why he never protected me. I loved the man and I have still not got over the fact he wasn't there for me.
Ashley Walters
Me
Man
About
Fact
Never
He
Over
Protected
Got
Still
Heard
Wondered
Stories
Loved
Dad
Why
I am not about airs and graces, fancy cars or jewellery. I am just about my family and my kids.
Ashley Walters
Family
I Am
Car
Kids
About
Am
Graces
Just
Fancy
Jewellery
The main thing I learned in jail was how much I love my kids, that I never want to be away from them again.
Ashley Walters
Love
Kids
I Love
Main
Never
Main Thing
Learned
How
How Much
Jail
Want
Again
Them
Much
Away
Thing
I would love to have a chat with Michael Jackson. For the sole purpose of seeing if he has a deep voice or not. A lot of people say he actually had a deep baritone, but then on TV he always had the high pitched squeaky voice. I would love to spend some time with him.
Ashley Walters
Love
Time
People
Spend
Sole
Sole Purpose
Say
TV
High
Would
People Say
Seeing
Some
Voice
Purpose
Chat
Had
He
Him
Always
Lot
Michael
Michael Jackson
Jackson
Then
Baritone
Deep
Actually
You know, I have got quite a husky, gritty voice which people say - even when I'm talking nicely - does sound a bit rough.
Ashley Walters
You
People
Gritty
Say
Bit
People Say
Voice
Know
Talking
Does
Got
Sound
Quite
Which
Even
Rough
Nicely
Drake and his camp are people of their word. I've never seen them say they're going to do something and not do it.
Ashley Walters
People
Word
Seen
Drake
Say
Something
Never
His
Camp
Going
Them
Drake is involved heavily, and they're kind of working away to find the right home for 'Top Boy,' whether that be Netflix, whether it be on TV, whether it be Amazon, I don't know.
Ashley Walters
Home
Drake
Top
Kind
TV
Find
Netflix
Know
Involved
Boy
Amazon
Whether
Working
Away
Right
I had a good three or four months of mad depression where I thought, I'm not doing this any more, it's brought me nothing but problems, I can't take it. My own label didn't want to touch me. A lot of people just shut doors.
Ashley Walters
Depression
Good
Me
People
Problems
Thought
Three
Own
Doors
Nothing
Months
Mad
Brought
Touch
My Own
More
Take
Had
Doing
Lot
Label
Any
Just
Where
Want
Four
Shut
My whole journey has been televised: the negative and the positive.
Ashley Walters
Positive
Journey
Negative
Televised
Has-Been
Been
Whole
I'm not a comedy guy. I don't do comedy shows.
Ashley Walters
Comedy
Guy
Comedy Shows
Shows
My mum's been my backbone, my inspiration, and the person who's pushed me in my career.
Ashley Walters
Me
Backbone
Inspiration
Pushed
Been
Person
Mum
Career
I don't want to force anyone to give me a job. I want to be the right person for the part.
Ashley Walters
Me
Right Person
Job
Give
Give Me
Part
Force
Person
Want
Anyone
Right
When I was young, I would go to youth clubs after school, run by my teachers and there were places to go where you could talk things out or enjoy sport with kids from different areas so territorial barriers were broken down.
Ashley Walters
Broken
You
Youth
School
Young
Down
Enjoy
Kids
Out
Run
Would
Area
Could
Talk
Sport
Territorial
Go
Were
Where
Different
After
After-School
Different Areas
Places
Clubs
Teachers
Barriers
Things
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.
Ashley Walters
You
Once
Top
Worrying
About
Never
Feels
Like
Know
Always
Been
Being
Gonna
Being There
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.
Ashley Walters
Time
You
Song
Rapper
Singing
Practice
Lost
Whatever
About
Like
Crying
Tracks
Sound
Taught
Being
Your
Hard
There's always that romantic Hollywood element to it. But people appreciate 'Top Boy' because it is what it is.
Ashley Walters
People
It Is What It Is
Top
Because
Boy
Always
Romantic
Hollywood
Element
Appreciate
My dad spent most of my childhood behind bars. He went to jail 17 or 18 times. It was only when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2004 that we started to have a relationship.
Ashley Walters
Relationship
Cancer
Spent
Only
He
Most
Diagnosed
Times
Childhood
Behind
Jail
Bars
Dad
Started
I hoard and buy loads of the same things over and over - DVDs, clothes, trainers.
Ashley Walters
Buy
Clothes
Over
DVDs
Trainers
Same
Hoard
Same Things
Things
Loads
I go away to places in Europe or America and I feel uncomfortable; I can't wait to get home.
Ashley Walters
Home
Wait
Go Away
I Feel
Uncomfortable
Feel
Go
America
Get
Places
Europe
Away
I come from a place where to go to prison is like a rite of passage. It's something that you gain respect for. I used to watch people come out of prison, older cousins and the like, back in the day, and be in awe of them.
Ashley Walters
Day
You
Respect
People
Prison
Older
Back
Out
Something
Rite
Come
Like
Passage
Cousins
Go
Where
Gain
Place
Them
Used
Awe
Watch
I went to a branch of the City of Westminster College in Maida Vale to do drama, sociology and English literature. I stayed for three or four months.
Ashley Walters
College
Three
Drama
Months
City
Stayed
Branch
Westminster
Literature
English
English Literature
Four
Sociology
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