Doing Quotes
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I think I always just want to get better at whatever I'm doing... Always strive for excellence.
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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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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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We must become just be doing just acts.
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Directing feels great; I'm really happy to be doing this.
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You got to work hard whatever you're doing and try to be number one and take pride in what you're doing. You want to be at the best at your spot then you got to work hard, man. A lot of guys don't work as hard as it gonna take.
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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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Because when you do something, you have to know exactly what you're doing. No one knows exactly what they're doing. That's because people are lazy and undisciplined.
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I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.
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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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Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.
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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 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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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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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 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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If you don't like what you're doing, get out.
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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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I think what we're doing here [Asia] is much more valid. We've got half the world's population here. The implications are as evident as they would be for the French New Wave.
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At 45, you know what you're doing, but you're still not done.
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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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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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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 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.
