Teyonah Parris Quotes
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.
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But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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Get yourself into every audition that you can. Even in those for smaller roles, you'll never know when someone may recommend you for a bigger one.
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Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
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What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.
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You can enjoy yourself, but you need to look after yourself as well.
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So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
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Be yourself. And every person is unique.
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I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
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I am a musician. My passion for music has obliterated everything in its path for my entire life.
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It's funny: sometimes with 'Spaced,' people would try and read too much into something I'd done, with the references meaning something more than they do.
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It's important, as a young person of color, to see yourself reflected in the media.
