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Noel Clarke Biography

Noel Anthony Clarke (born 6 December 1975) is an English actor, screenwriter, director, and comic book writer from London. He is known for playing Wyman Norris in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet and Mickey Smith in Doctor Who. Clarke appeared in and wrote the screenplay for Kidulthood and wrote, directed and starred in the sequels, Adulthood and Brotherhood, which earned £1,209,319 during the opening weekend of its release. Clarke studied Media at the University of North London before going on to take acting classes at London's Actors Centre. Clarke won the Laurence Olivier Award for Most Promising Performer in 2003 and was awarded a BAFTA Orange Rising Star Award in 2009.

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When I write a project, it might be something that I want to do and then when I look at it, I'm actually like, "I kind of don't want to direct it. " I don't know why, I still love it enough for it to be made and to support it, but I don't want to direct it. I just give it to other directors and they do a good job!

Direct, Giving, Job, Kind, Support, Writing

If I'm given the opportunity of writing, directing and acting in the same film I would love to do it again. It's something I don't think that anyone else is doing in the country at this level. . . not many people are doing it in the world. I think if you check that out and find it's quite accurate, there's only a handful of people that actually are doing it.

Country, Writing, Opportunity, People, Given

People can criticise me all day long. It just washes off me. You might as well be talking to a wall.

Long, People, Talking, Wall, Washes

As a man - no longer a teenager that can play those really young roles, but as a man - I think I've only just got good in the last three or four years. I only watch my old films because, as someone who wasn't trained, that's how I look at my mistakes; I see something and I go, "Well, that's not good," and I learn from my mistakes. Same with the writing and same with the directing.

Good, Man, Mistake, Teenager, Watch, Writing

I don't think anyone expected me to get the BAFTA. The bookies didn't have me down. It's definitely made a huge difference in my career, but I don't dwell on it.

Bookies, Careers, Differences, Expected, Think, Thinking

I think now you see a lot more British films from the perspective of, I guess what would be considered "new" British people - people of color, Asian people. I think that's what's happening now, whereas 20 years ago it couldn't happen because it was still predominantly, "British film is about middle-class white families and what they do. "

Films, Guess, People, Perspective, See, Thinking

I think one thing my mother always instilled in me was a sense of individuality. Being an only child, I never thought I had to rely on anyone. I was never afraid to be alone and I was never afraid to be my own person. So when all my friends were like, "Let's smoke weed," I was like, "I'm not doing it. " It wasn't because I was trying to be a rebel or because I didn't like it or I was anti-drugs. I just didn't do it because I didn't want to do it, and if I didn't want to do it, I wasn't doing it. That was it.

Mother, Weed, Children, Person, Rebel

I asked my media teacher, "You can make films out of sequence?" and he was like "Yeah! You can do whatever you want. " I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like "Stop moaning and write something. "

Teacher, Writing, Film, Sequence, Media

I'm always writing, but directing takes priority over everything, unless the acting is a job that lifts that whole brand. If I get a part in a big film with a big director and I was going to direct one of my one films, I would take the former job because that job will only help anything that I then intend to do. I think in the long run, directing is the thing that will outlive everything else. Maybe that and writing.

Directing, Running, Take, Thinking, Whole, Writing

I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

Choice, Choices, Hard Work, Harder, Work, Work Harder

I can't always be making "British films". Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?

Corsets, Event, Events, Girl, Girls, Horse

I was offered and accepted a part in 'A Few Best Men,' and then the Australian actor's union argued that there were too many British actors. And the director decided to lose me.

Actors, British, Director, Directors, Men

I'm always willing to work that little bit harder to achieve what I need to achieve because I feel like it's a blessing for me to be here. I was never supposed to be here. I'm the black council estate kid, single parent, from West London, with friends that are in jail, friends that have committed heinous crimes, friends that are doing nothing. I'm not supposed to be here, therefore I have nothing to lose. I'm always going to work harder than everyone else because if it doesn't work, "So what?".

Blessing, Committed, Estate, Hard Work, Jail, Kids

I don't like doing things that are too easy.

Easy, Like, Things

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like “Stop moaning and write something. ”

Feds, Stop, Stories, Write, Writing

When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood. ' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.

Scripts, See, Test, Tests, Writing, Wrote

You'll never see me in any of the tabloids because I've made a conscious effort to stay out of that. I'm not interested in fame. I'm interested in hard work and letting my work speak for what I do. I've been in high-profile shows but you don't see stories on me because I don't go out and court them.

Conscious, Effort, Hard Work, Speak, Work

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

British, Important, Old, Same, Stuff, Thinking

I don't feel that I'm a role model. I'm just me. If people want to look up to me then that's their business. I'm not perfect and I don't consider myself to be a role model. But to be honest, I'd much rather my kids look up to me than look up to some rock star who gets off jail more times than is even funny.

Jail, Kids, Look, People, Role, Role Models

'Pulp Fiction' blew my mind; beforehand, I'd watch films and there was a beginning, middle and an end, and that's it. There is in that film, too, but it's out of sequence.

Beforehand, Fiction, Mind, Pulp, Watch, Watches

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