Nikki Cox (Nicole Avery Cox) Quotes
All that some actresses want is for people to take them seriously instead of caring about how they look.
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It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
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I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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I love being able to take a nap in the afternoon.
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I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.
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I'm a liberal, but I'm not biased. Seriously.
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I could never take orders from anyone.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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My most firmly held value is what Albert Schweitzer termed 'reverence for life.' I take this seriously; many would say that because I extend it to nonhumans, I take it too far.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren't those one imagined.
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I did modelling for a year, but then I always wanted to be an actress.
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When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
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The only thing that I could think of to do was to be an actress.
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To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called ‘the rupture of plane’ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.
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They want to go to the bar and eat a few snacks, have a couple of cocktails or glasses of wine, and go home. People don't sit down at the table and have a whole three or four courses.
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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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When I first started, it was really an innocent response to the needs of women in rural areas. When we started planting trees to meet their needs, there was nothing beyond that. I did not see all the issues that I have to come to deal with.
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All that some actresses want is for people to take them seriously instead of caring about how they look.
