Doing Quotes
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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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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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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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Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
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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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When you achieve a certain amount of success, you want to be doing something else.
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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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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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The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.
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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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You can write 16 plays and not make as much money as you did doing one movie.
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I engage and after that I see what to do.
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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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We must become just be doing just acts.
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Shut up, I know what I'm doing!
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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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If you don't like what you're doing, get out.
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We are well organized. We've done enough of them to know what we are doing.
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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'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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Seeming to do is not doing.
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I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.
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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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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.
