Genevieve Nnaji Quotes

Nothing affects my acting. Acting is something I do with my soul so it embodies a lot of things. For me, I don't know about anyone else, acting is spiritual, so if I do not embody a character or a story or a script, it's going to be extremely difficult for me to be convincing and I don't like that because I am somewhat of a perfectionist

Genevieve Nnaji

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Job
  • Acting
  • Beat

• I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Sin
  • Terrible

• I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

  

  Katharine Cornell
  • Amazing
  • Woman
  • Performances

• I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Appreciate

• I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Hip Hop
  • Chris
  • Martin

• We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Great
  • Country
  • Trust

• I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Day

• It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.

  

  Yuna
  • Time
  • Home
  • Year

• Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

  

  Kajol
  • Hand
  • Goals
  • Step

• If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Sun

• When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Really
  • Hurts
  • Says

• Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Way
  • Dance
  • Songs

• I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Celebrity

• Putin is like Al Capone.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Like
  • Putin
  • Al Capone

• Love is a kind of warfare.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Kind
  • For Her

• I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.

  

  Oren Peli
  • Myself
  • Successful
  • Lucky

• No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Matter

• Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Character

• And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Up
  • Important
  • Character

• Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Difficult
  • Talent
  • Profession

• My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.

  

  Christopher Meloni
  • Great
  • Why
  • Air

• Nothing affects my acting. Acting is something I do with my soul so it embodies a lot of things. For me, I don't know about anyone else, acting is spiritual, so if I do not embody a character or a story or a script, it's going to be extremely difficult for me to be convincing and I don't like that because I am somewhat of a perfectionist

  

  Genevieve Nnaji
  • Character
  • Spiritual
  • Stories