Me Quotes
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I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar; I don't get paparazzi around me.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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If I'm performing with a DJ, it's all on me to draw the energy. I like the camaraderie of a band.
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What others call magic realism is normal and an everyday thing to me.
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I don't deal with the whole 'bad boy who doesn't call you.' That doesn't interest me at all, and I just look the other way.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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When candidates have asked me for support before, they have asked for more than a check.
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If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.
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My best asset is my brain. Without my brain, I don't think the rest of me would be too hot.
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My teammates tell me to shoot the ball when I'm open. I feel like I'm open most of the time, so I shoot it.
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To be a veiled Muslim woman on screen is a very scary minefield for me.
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I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.
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I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.
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Trends don't interest me.
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If my parents ever had to ground me, they didn't really know what that would mean, because I was inside most of the time anyway.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
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There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.
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When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.
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I've always loved musical films; I find them really thrilling and exciting; it was part of what made me want to be an actress, that feeling of being really transported.
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I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.
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Nothing, literally nothing, makes me feel like I'm back to my body more than Pilates.
