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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It is my passion to direct movies.
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You have to be quite stupid to act.
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I've been jailed once, put in police lock-up twice, and was under house arrest twice.
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There is a real problem with the lack of diversity, specifically in genre films and the superheroes our kids grow up watching and emulating, they can't really identify with. When you see the same thing, over and over again, and it seems not to speak of you and your heritage and your culture, it leaves you out of this world, a little bit. It gives a certain social distance with your world.
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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.
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The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.
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Stereotyping of any race or culture is narrow-minded, and I can't wait to help break the shackles.
