Naomie Harris Quotes
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I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
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I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.
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Yes, I'm obsessed with health, which has been an interesting journey. I went down the raw-food diet route, but got ill. It was really hard, especially in Britain in winter, trying to survive on raw carrots. I became so ill and anemic, so I stopped that and became a vitamin junkie. I just ate lots of vegetables, exercised and breathed.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I'm incredibly impatient; I'd like to be less so, and more content with the now.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
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I think the role of the Bond woman has changed so much over the years that it now doesn't follow a typical archetypical view. Before, it was very much a beautiful woman who didn't contribute much and who usually ended up getting killed or was arm candy for Bond. But now the women in a Bond movie have so much more to offer.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.
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I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.
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I always find filming stressful. I get very caught up thinking about my character - 'Am I doing it right? Should it be done this way?'
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself.
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.
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It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
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There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men.