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" I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle. "
Ruth Negga
Struggle
American
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" In many ways, playing a real person is slightly easier because you have a road map. When you're playing someone fictitious, there's myriad ways in. With a real person, there's boundaries, and that sometimes makes the work easier. "
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" I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history. "
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" Sometimes, people know me from Marvel's 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' But that usually only happens in America. "
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" I was moved by the 'Lovings' story because of my own background as a mixed-race person. "
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" Women always have to have this soft, maternal, sort of - I don't know - moral center. "
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" The god of theater laughs in your face at planning. You can't plan as an actor; there's no way, because so much of it is dependent on other people's choices and decisions that you're at the whim of fate, really. "
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" Sometimes it's hard to play someone so similar to you, because you can muddy the character. Often, it's easier to play someone further away from you, because it's clearer who they are. "
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" I trained, went to college, trained, and got a job. Then got another job. When I wasn't working I worked at a bar, then got another job. "
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" I don't trust anyone who doesn't change their mind. "
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" I work best when there's a safety trampoline of kindness. "
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" I don't like hobbies. I read and travel and see my friends before they disown me. "
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" My favorite film is 'All About Eve'. "
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" History is written by the winners. My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. "
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" I know I've said it before in interviews, but the idea that all actors have their eye on some sort of prize - it being an Oscar, or fame, or whatever - not all actors I know are like that. "
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Eye
" I think kids are amazing. You kind of just deal with stuff, don't you? It's only years later that you have to spend thousands in therapy. "
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" I'm interested in the idea that we all start off as these lovely little babies with all this potential but that circumstances mean that we don't always live the life we should. "
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" I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial. "
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" I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star. "
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" There are no actions involved in 'beautiful.' It's such an inactive thing, and it's so subject to each individual's taste and appreciation. It's a lovely word, but I feel like it's been hijacked by really boring, dull people who don't understand how to use words. "
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" I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough. "
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" I'm not the most articulate person. "
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" I don't know why women aren't allowed to have the same sort of breadth and scope and flaws of men. "
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" I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections. "
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" I had quite a scattered childhood. I was Irish in London, because I had my secondary school education there. I never really fitted anywhere. I didn't feel it was a negative thing, and I was never made to feel different - I just knew I was. "
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" My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly. "
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" America has a black president, but there are no black studio heads, and there just aren't that many black people working anywhere on film sets, let alone in positions of power in Hollywood. That's what needs to change. "
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" I use the term 'spine' for people when I think that they may seem on the surface sort of reticent, shy, self-deprecating, shying away from the spotlight. Quiet. "
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" You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you. "
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" When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like you're in the way. "
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