Doing Quotes
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While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.
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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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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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We must become just be doing just acts.
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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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Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me feel whole, complete.
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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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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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As an adult and a parent, when I'm not acting, I'm not acting. I'm being a parent, and I'm on the school run, and I'm sewing labels onto socks. That's what I'm doing.
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We are well organized. We've done enough of them to know what we are doing.
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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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Shut up, I know what I'm doing!
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I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.
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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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For a good five years I didn't know where home was, I barely had very much time to think about anything but doing what I was doing.
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If you don't like what you're doing, get out.
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I engage and after that I see what to do.
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I'm enjoying playing football, and as a footballer, that's what you want to do, and that is exactly what I've been doing.
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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.
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You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.
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I've had every kind of humiliation, from playing in Gala Bingo halls to doing a PA in a Glaswegian nightclub and having cans of lager thrown at me.
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When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.
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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 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.
