“My performance, I believe, is about my duty to the script, and my duty...” — Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Quote

“My performance, I believe, is about my duty to the script, and my duty to the story that we're trying to tell, and I try to do that in a way that is true, in a way that's going to hold up the script, and that's going to be fun for the viewers to watch.”

“I have a lot of fun playing quote unquote villains because I think the bad guys get to have more fun, right?”

“I had taken an acting class at Berkeley - I was on the track team, and a friend of mine on the team said, 'You should take an acting class. It's just like recess.' So I viewed it as a simple credit.”

“I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.”

“Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do owe them.”

“Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.”