Doing Quotes
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I like to jump into different worlds. I'm attracted to the emotional rollercoaster of acting. Now I've been doing it for so many years, I must rather enjoy it.
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Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.
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So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.
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I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're doing this for nothing. An audience is crucial, a back and forth with the invisible readers.
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I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.
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I have before and I'll do it again. I'm in touch with my feminine side.
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I grew up doing musicals in my childhood at school, along with all the plays I used to be involved in.
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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
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I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.
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Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
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I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
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If you are going to do something truly innovative, you have to be someone who does not value social approval. You can't need social approval to go forward. Otherwise, how would you ever do the thing that you are doing?
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If you don't like what you're doing, get out.
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If you remain open to great directors who look like you, who know what they're doing and are making impactful films that are destroying these 'blockbuster films,' you can do okay, and everybody can get more of a piece of the pie. But you've got to be open and brave.
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You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.
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Seeming to do is not doing.
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I remember Nayim at Tottenham dived all over the place, and we used to say to him, 'What are you doing?' You do talk about it.
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The right to be irresponsible and stupid is something I hold very dear. And luckily it is something I do well.
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I don't see Hollywood as the big enemy, because this is where the money is, and not all of the companies are doing studio movies. I'm not tempted to sell out. If I'm going to become well known, I want it to be for something I'm proud of.
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I think I'm an athlete who's trained as an actor, and when you smash it all together, you get whatever Omari is doing as a performer right now.
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Some people are brilliant on the first take, some people are brilliant on the fourth take, and when you are doing a group scene, you kind of have to figure that out.
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It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.
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I remember doing stand-up at an open mic a long time ago, and the MC was like, 'Who's next?' I said, 'Marietta Sirleaf,' and he was like, 'What?' And I was like, 'Ugh, okay, just Retta.' It stuck with me ever since.
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I've been always clear that I wouldn't do TV soaps just for the sake of doing them. I would rather wait and work on projects which enable me to make an impact.
