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" I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people. "

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" The ethos of most films is that you make a film, you exploit the community, you exploit the environment, and it's OK because you made a great film, you know? "

Naomie Harris

Environment

You

Know

" I was brought up in Britain, and I'm very proud of my Britishness and my culture. "

Naomie Harris

Britain

Culture

" For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out. "

" I love doing a film with a new bunch of people. "

" I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion. "

" My mum believes in me almost more than I believe in myself. "

Naomie Harris

Myself

" I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate. "

" I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock. "

" I like to believe that we all pray to the same god. "

Naomie Harris

Pray

Same

" There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile. "

" We eat food all the time and don't really understand what goes into something like bread. "

" I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug. "

Naomie Harris

Flower

Giving

" Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case. "

" I love Sam Mendes. He's a fantastic director. "

" I was too much of an innocent when I went to university. "

" Getting to travel around the world and go to glamorous locations is certainly not what I had as a kid. "

" I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl. "

" When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week. "

" What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching. "

" When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me. "

Naomie Harris

Sister

Children

" Make-up is an extension of your clothes. "

" At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive. "

" As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it. "

" I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond. "

" I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop. "

" Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss. "

" It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are. "

" Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer. "

" Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing. "