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.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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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.
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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.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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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.
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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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.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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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.
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You can sit around and complain that Hollywood doesn't make any good movies. But you can generate your own material. So I read books. I come up with ideas. I was the producer on 'The Woodsman' to help get that off the ground. Sometimes that extends itself to directing.
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We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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I think every role is always exciting and intimidating. I've never had a role where I wasn't intimidated by it.
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I have had twenty years of perfect companionship with a man among men. He is a rock and a protection. I have never regretted it.
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Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.
