“I kind of just skyrocketed out of graduate school.” — Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Quote

“I kind of just skyrocketed out of graduate school.”

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

“When I was in college, it was on the recommendation of a friend of mine. He recommended that I take an acting class, and so I kind of did. I was very open to feedback and open to suggestions. I had a little bit of space in my schedule, and I guess, as the story goes, I went into an acting class, and I kind of got the bug for it.”

“My mother was a proud and capable woman. She was among the first class of college graduates after China's Cultural Revolution, then immigrated to the U.S. by herself.”

“I didn't graduate. I was doing theater in Michigan the summer after my junior year and just moved on to New York.”

“I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.”