Me Quotes
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I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
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There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'
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In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.
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It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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We're not monolithic. What is blackness? To me, how do you define that?
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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Not always trainers, but if I don't have to, I don't wear high heels. It's really just if something looks good on me, I'm going to buy it. It can be Zara or Chanel... I'm going to buy it.
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My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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I'm not the only one in the studio a lot of times, so I have my boys in there and they'll tell me and give me their suggestions and what they think.
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Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.
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My son gave me the permission to accept my success.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
