Nicole Beharie Quotes
There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if there are no quirky black women. I struggle with those things constantly, trying to add dimension to my work, and that's the goal, too.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
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A well begun is half ended.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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One of my biggest drawbacks is my inability to maintain my physique. I put on weight for 'Soodhu Kavvum' and never managed to shed it. Luckily, that look suited a few films, including 'Orange Mittai.'
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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Love is a kind of warfare.
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The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.
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It isn't always the middle-aged who refuse to listen, who will not even try to understand another point of view. One boy would not get it through his head that for all adults God is not an old man in a white beard sitting on a cloud. As far as this boy was concerned, this old gentleman was the adult's god, and therefore he did not believe in God.
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Fans hate a hypocrite. I believe they detect the real you behind every role and if they are led to believe you are something you pretend you aren't, they resent it.
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The history of art is not just the history of artists; it is also the history of the people who viewed art. And that wider perspective can help us see some of the reasons why the art of the ancient world should still matter to us.
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I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.
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It's good to have a governing body to oversee matters in making of films, but you can't blame films for what is happening in society.
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If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
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If you have assumed a character beyond your strength, you have both played a poor figure in that, and neglected one that is within your powers. (79).
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Your work isn't just to learn and say the lines. Your work is to figure out what the chatter in your brain is, that's going on under the lines. It doesn't matter whether you're speaking or not speaking because your mind is working the way your character's mind would work.
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Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
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There are expectations in how you play your character as a black woman, to be sassy and the same kind of feel, as if there are no quirky black women. I struggle with those things constantly, trying to add dimension to my work, and that's the goal, too.
