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4499 Actress Quotes

I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.
Accents Different Grew Lot
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When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way.

Actor Amazing Contribution Directors
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I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

Am Famous Hugely Material
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I grew up in an area of Ireland where there weren't many black or mixed-race children. But I never had any hassle; maybe I've blocked it out, but I don't think so.

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I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film.

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I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

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Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles.

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I'm interested in the idea that we all start off as these lovely little babies with all this potential but that circumstances mean that we don't always live the life we should.

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My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

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Bette Davis is my hero. I'm obsessed with her. I base everything I do on her.
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I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that.

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I didn't have that many black people in my life, so I had to sort of search them out. And I didn't grow up in America, but I identified as much with their writing about the black experience as I did with their writing about the human experience.

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I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

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I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

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I don't like hobbies. I read and travel and see my friends before they disown me.

Before Friends Hobbies Like
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I have not been aggressive in my pursuit of being a star. I've never had a plan. Maybe I need to be more aggressive, because it's quite tough!

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You know when you're a kid and you get to pick a movie every Friday? I watched everything. There's no particular genre that was appealing. I just loved the idea that you could dress up and play.

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I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.
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Women always have to have this soft, maternal, sort of - I don't know - moral center.
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I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men.

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Violence in film and television is an ongoing conversation, and I like eavesdropping on it, but I'm never sure what my opinion is. I like watching creative violence, but I don't know.

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I don't really know how strong someone is if they're compelled to a life of violence. Is that strong? No. That's damaged.

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When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

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My favorite film is 'All About Eve'.

About Eve Favorite Film
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I use the term 'spine' for people when I think that they may seem on the surface sort of reticent, shy, self-deprecating, shying away from the spotlight. Quiet.

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People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?

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My family very much adored me, and at school, I was an object of fascination.

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I was moved by the 'Lovings' story because of my own background as a mixed-race person.

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I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London.

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I trained, went to college, trained, and got a job. Then got another job. When I wasn't working I worked at a bar, then got another job.

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I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

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I've met loads of black and brown and various people who are well into comics.

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I've always been very talkative, very chatty, quite hyperactive. I grew up with a lot of cousins, and most of them were boys. Four in particular and I were the demolition squad. Havoc.

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I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

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What I have wanted to do is take roles that are unexpected for people who look like me. Roles that the establishment would say, 'Oh, she couldn't possibly be that.'
Establishment Like Look Me
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The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

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You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you.

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I work best when there's a safety trampoline of kindness.
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I love the Greeks. There's no messing around - it's all do or die with them.

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Diversity needs to operate on every level. It's great that the Oscars have highlighted it, but black actors getting nominated shouldn't be the only result. There's so much more that needs to be done.

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I was an attention seeker, always in trouble.

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The good thing about auditioning is that you get to test yourself and see if you can play this character - you're also auditioning yourself.

About Also Auditioning Character
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Stories about race and identity pique my interest for obvious reasons. That's in my body, my brain, my history, my memories - it's all part of my toolbox as an actor.

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I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.

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We need to have a conversation about the fact that black faces are not as visible as they should be, that there is huge inequality everywhere in terms of race.

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People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.

About Always Assumptions Because
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I don't trust anyone who doesn't change their mind.

Anyone Change Mind Trust
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I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.

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Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
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Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

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