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Ruth Negga

"I've gone into auditions and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo and then I open my mouth and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.' They want to put you in a box in LA, that's how they tend to do it there, so if you don't fit in that box, it makes it more difficult."

Source : "Ethiopian-Irish Actress Ruth Negga Believes Her Heritage Is Negatively Affecting Her Career" by Emmanuel Akitobi, www.indiewire.com. September 03, 2012.

Ruth Negga

#Thinking Quotes #Gone Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.”

Source : "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.
“Don't be an actor. Be a human being who works off what exists under imaginary circumstances.”

Source : Sanford Meisner, Dennis Longwell (2012). “Sanford Meisner on Acting”, p.128, Vintage
“We do share with my mother what I would refer to as an anxiety gene. And I think it is genetic, that I worry about everything. Not every day, I don't want to say it like that, but I do worry a lot about - what was the line I heard the other day, when I was saying to a girlfriend of mine that I worry? She says, "Yes, I spent my whole life worrying - and some of the things actually came true."”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.”
“The â€˜experimentalâ€™ writer, then, is simply following the storyâ€™s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story is the story. See? Sometimes this is very hard to accept and sometimes too easy. On the one hand, thereâ€™s the writer who canâ€™t face his fate: that the telling of a story has nothing at all to do with him; on the other hand, thereâ€™s the one who faces it too well: that the telling of the story has nothing at all to do with him”
“Human minds are limitless, like space. It may be foolish for a person to even try toÂ deliberatelyÂ affectÂ another person's mind.”
“As a human being, you have the right to get angry; but as a practitioner, you do not have the right to stop practicing.”
“The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty, the unavailability of basic necessities such as food, jobs, water and shelter, education, health care and a healthy environment.”

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