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4499 Actress Quotes

I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down - no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.

About Always Because Blogs
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Exercise is amazing, from the inside out. I feel so alive and have more energy.

Alive Amazing Energy Exercise
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My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

Cardio Classes Kickboxing Mum
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

Females I Love Incredibly Industry
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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

Being Better Comfort Comfort Zone
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I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

Am Aware Better Better Person
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I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.

Doing Finding Grow How
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You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.

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When it comes to inmates, we have boiled them down to just the few things we know about them - their crime, their current life situation, their identification number. But the reality is they were something before they were their crime.

About Before Crime Current
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I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.

About Comfort Drop Get
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In performance, you don't always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.
Always Bond Develops Family
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I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.

Comedy Funny Little Play
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I'll definitely wear orange on the red carpet!
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I come from Nigeria, and we live by the idea that it takes a village. So my entire team. I live by my team: my friends, my neighbors, my teachers - they're the people who taught me how to be a free actor.

Actor Come Entire Free
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

Family Full Good Means
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.

Confident Dead Fall Happen
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I've heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I've never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

Absolutely Absolutely Nothing Coming Hard
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People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.

Crazy Eyes Funny Funny Thing
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You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.

Behind Breathing Camera Job
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On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.

Able Blue Days Get
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I'm obsessed with 'Scandal.' I love, love, love it. I've gotten to meet all of the cast at this point, and they're all so, so nice.

Cast Gotten I Love Love
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I loved 'Ghana Must Go' by Taiye Selasi. It's about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.

About African America Away
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I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

Brain Build Character Close
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

Came Day Hiding High
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As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.
Fake Found Need Officially
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I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Arts Encouraged Had Helped
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If you're already somebody who's feeling different, you'll do everything in your power to fix it because children will do everything in their power to fit in and assimilate.

Assimilate Because Children Different
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I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose BU because they had both a good track program and an arts program.

Arts Athletic Because Boston
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I dream in color, and I have visions of feelings and energies that I would love to feel.
Color Dream Energies Feel
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I love physicality. I love movement very much.

I Love Love Movement Much
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

Family Figure How Integral
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I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.
Certainly Fan Helped Huge
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.

Building Ensemble I Love Love
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I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

Activities After-School Any Arts
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My finding of myself as an artist, which I think in itself helped me to find just who I am and how I want to express myself, is entirely - in conjunction, of course, with my family, particularly my mom - founded on teachers.

Am Artist Course Entirely
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I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo genocide during her country's civil war in the late 1960s.

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I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting. I took roles for free. I waited tables. I didn't care because it was work.

Acting After Because Care
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.

Broadway Few First Landing
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

American Experiences Individuals Parents
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

Actor Going Good Good Movie
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I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most.

Chekhov Hardest I Love Love
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I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go.

Acting Angry Get Go
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
Backstage Bad Know Liar
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.

Bad Education Guy Had
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.

Allowed Because Could Hostess
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.

About Awhile Event Happen
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

Always Anniversary Before Gave
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Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together.

Brando Fun Like Match
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

Actor Bourgeois Existence Profession
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.

Always Any Around Doubts
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