Ruth Negga Quotes

Ireland, Actress
January 7, 1982

Ruth Negga is an Ethiopian-Irish actress who has appeared in the films Capital Letters, Isolation, Breakfast on Pluto and Warcraft. She has also played roles in television, such as in the BBC mini-series Criminal Justice, RTÉ's Love/Hate, E4's Misfits, and ABC's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. In 2016, she began a starring role as Tulip O'Hare in AMC's Preacher.

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 youre in the way.

Ruth Negga
- Way
- Feels
- Actors
If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I find it awful, and it makes me really nervous. It hasn't happened to me much, but when you have a taste of it, it's bitter.

Ruth Negga
- Bitter
- Taste
- Nervous

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, than feeling like you've achieved that.

Ruth Negga
- People
- Art
- Film
Ninety percent of my roles, I've had to fight for. It's only a really small percentage of people who get handed roles. But that can be quite scary. 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. I enjoy seeing what the chemistry is between the people you might be working with.

Ruth Negga
You don't come to see a Greek play and not want blood and gore and depth of feeling from your boots up.

Ruth Negga
- Play
- Feelings
- Blood
There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?

Ruth Negga
- Worry
- Actors
- Jobs
I grew up in a lot of different places, so I pick up accents pretty quickly.

Ruth Negga
I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult.

Ruth Negga
- Kind
- Difficult
- Strange

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.

Ruth Negga
Never think that one voice is too small to be heard.

Ruth Negga
- Voice
- Heard