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Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.
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I am very emotional about politics in a way that makes it hard for me to articulate things in a rational fashion.
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I don't ever want to be president - let's just get that out of the way.
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Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.
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What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.
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Drama is my sweet spot, but the thing about being an actor is that you want to do a variety of things. I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.
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There have been rumors and rumors and rumors about my love life. That's the one area that I really like to hold close to my heart.
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I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.
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The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every week. I'd had enough! On a whim, it was off. It's low-maintenance.
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I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor.
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I give myself homework when I have an audition. I give myself goals, and that's how I check how I'm doing. It can be something simple like 'listen,' or 'find your feet.' And then afterward it's an assessment, so in a way it's not about booking the job or not. It's about what I learned as an actor about that character.
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I would love to have a career that's governed by the material; I always want to be part of stories that I feel are worthwhile.
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I can speak of actors that I love. I love Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, her tenacity. I love Charlize Theron. She's so surprising and so exhilarating, the kinds of projects she takes on. Marion Cotillard as well.
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It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.
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When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor.
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I learned at Yale, one of the biggest lessons was to learn how special I am and therefore how totally unspecial I am. I was special among everyone else who was special. The fact that we're all so individual and that's what makes us special.
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I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.
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What fame does is there is an illusion of familiarity that is cast into the world. So it's about negotiating with that illusion because, oftentimes, you encounter people who have encountered you, but you haven't encountered them. It's a little weird to find your footing.
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My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico. Then I moved back to Kenya shortly after I turned one, and I grew up in Kenya.
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I'm a crybaby.
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I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses.
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I hope we can form a community where a woman can speak up about abuse and not suffer another abuse by not being believed and instead being ridiculed.
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I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies.
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As actors, you become an expert at starting over.
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