Rami Malek

Rami Said Malek (born May 12, 1981) is an American actor. He won a Critics' Choice Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his lead role as Elliot Alderson in the USA Network television series Mr. Robot. He also received Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and TCA Award nominations. In 2018, he portrayed Freddie Mercury in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, for which he won several awards, including the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and the British Academy Film Award for Best Actor in a leading role.

Quotes

 * My brother was like, We're going to have to change the locks and put bars on the windows! But I thought about it for a minute and I thought, Here's a role I could look back on and say, Man, I played a vampire. In, like, Twilight. I mean, how many people get to do that?


 * Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
 * In an Esquire interview in response to the question, "How would you define your relationship with technology and computers?"
 * In an Esquire interview in response to the question, "How would you define your relationship with technology and computers?"


 * I really wanted Elliot's clothes to feel like it was a bit of an urban combat uniform. We needed the wardrobe to reflect his desire to disappear from the world. So I suggested a hoodie. Well, maybe I shouldn't say 'suggest.'


 * Please tell me you're seeing this, too.
 * In his 2016 acceptance speech for his Emmy for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series. The line comes from the program Mr. Robot.
 * In his 2016 acceptance speech for his Emmy for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series. The line comes from the program Mr. Robot.


 * It's sad! Some really tragic moments have happened in my life and I found myself not getting emotional. Subconsciously, I was saving the grief so that, down the line, I could layer pain on top of pain. Because I want to feel that throughout my life. I want it to be easily accessible.


 * Someone took a selfie with me today on the street, and to see them plug in their passcode right in front of you — it’s not something I would ever do, and it’s borderline creepy, but my show just makes me so much more aware of how to conduct oneself in public. It’s little things we take for granted, like holding your passport out while you wait in line at an airport, and someone can screenshot that in a heartbeat. The amount of information that we arbitrarily extend to the world is very mind-boggling to me. It’s like we’re saying, “Go ahead,” Clint Eastwood-style, “make my day.”
 * In an interview for The New York Times, answering the question, "How are your own tech skills these days?"
 * In an interview for The New York Times, answering the question, "How are your own tech skills these days?"


 * I know Elliot does not come across as charismatic, but to me he is.


 * One word: Mischief.
 * In an interview for The New York Times, answering the question, "What’s the key to capturing that Mercury charisma?"
 * In an interview for The New York Times, answering the question, "What’s the key to capturing that Mercury charisma?"


 * I could use my imagination and I read a lot about mental health. And that puts you in the perspective of just how difficult it is to live in a mind that that doesn't always feel like your own and how…I mean, just, that's brutal in its own way. And that can be a very lonely, difficult place, and a very difficult frame of mind to articulate to anyone, to even want to share with anyone.
 * On the darkness of playing Elliot Alderson
 * On the darkness of playing Elliot Alderson

About

 * Malek has about three facial expressions in his arsenal, so his eyes do a lot of the work on Mr. Robot.