Nargis Fakhri Quotes

Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

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• You go where you think it's good for your work and your soul to go. I need to go someplace where I am reminded about why I wanted to act in the first place, and for me, that's the theater.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Why

• For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • You
  • Never
  • Sex

• In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Appearance

• People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
  • Girl
  • Myself

• Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Think
  • Know
  • Road

• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Canvas
  • Ever

• You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Money
  • Lose

• I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.

  

  Verite
  • Work
  • New York
  • Week

• Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Nothing
  • Talking
  • Someone

• Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

  

  Val Guest
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Bad

• Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

  

  Edith Head
  • Heart
  • Desire
  • Fashion

• I think I'm lucky having parents that have been in show business for a while, and they don't care about the shiny stuff so much. They raised me in that way - to stay grounded, not to chase the shiny, pretty things.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Business
  • Pretty
  • Parents

• Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.

  

  Odeya Rush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Me

• I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learning
  • Road
  • English

• There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Good
  • Learning

• You have to be quite stupid to act.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Stupid
  • Act

• I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Mind
  • History
  • Science

• It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

  

  Michael Shanks
  • Character
  • Impossible
  • Affection

• Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.

  

  Arthur Hertzberg
  • American
  • Culture
  • Candy

• I drove 3,500 miles this summer on our family holiday, we drove across 10 countries. I have driven across the United States four times. I love cars, I love being in cars, I think so do most people. I want to help and support those people who have that same kind of enthusiasm for driving that I have.

  

  Geoff Hoon
  • People
  • Family
  • Help

• If you just want to help people out you end up being a good person. I mean there’s every single kind of horrible self-help book will tell you if you’re feeling down and you’re feeling depressed just go help someone out and it’s a cliché, you wouldn’t even say it it’s so embarrassing, except it happens to be true.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Having kids sets a bomb off in your life. It really makes you examine who you are, what you believe in and what you want to be. And that is magical for creativity.

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Kids

• Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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