Me Quotes
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.
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A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
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I can't even go down to the park anymore back home in Newark, New Jersey because my homeboys won't let me play. They tell me I'm too big time, too Hollywood, so they won't let me play out there no more.
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
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A lot of people don't know that I had a special appearance in 'Keratam'; that was my first Telugu film. I only shot for four to five days. When they called me, I said, 'I can't give 60 days for a movie. If you have something for one week or 10 days, then I can accommodate.'
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?'
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my best and to improve.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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Decision – making is very scary for me.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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I think the Aussieness got beaten out of me back in the States.
