Quotes by Gugu Mbatha-Raw - Page 2

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Persona
Self Worth
Slave
Expense
Feel Your Comfortable
Shield
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I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened to Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, actually, on cassette tapes.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Musical Theater
Nina
Always Growing Up Up
Cassette
Ella
Fitzgerald
Listened
Sung
Tapes
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For me, I try and be authentic in my choices and follow my instincts, and I think it's a valuable message for women in today's society to learn to love yourself.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Choices
Love Yourself
Valuable
Love Women Society
Authentic
Instincts
Follow
Message
To Love
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In terms of 'Beyond the Lights' and 'Belle,' they're definitely stories about identity. They're female empowerment stories. So I'm exploring that through my work.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Belle
Empowerment
Exploring
Lights
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But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Self Worth
Shields
Slave
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At home I wear my own clothes, no makeup and don't do anything exciting with my hair. I get to borrow pretty dresses for the red carpet and have experts do my hair and makeup.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Carpet
Dresses
Experts
Makeup
Red Carpet
Borrow
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At home I wear my own clothes, no makeup and don't do anything exciting with my hair. I get to borrow pretty dresses for the red carpet, and have experts do my hair and makeup.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Home
Hair
Makeup
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As a biracial girl growing up in England, I'd never really seen any historical characters who looked like me depicted on film before that weren't being brutalized or playing slaves.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Girl
Character
Growing Up
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I spent a chunk of time in New Orleans doing the movie 'Free State Of Jones,' getting to work with Matthew McConaughey, and also did 'Concussion,' where I got to work with Will Smith.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Free State
Matthew
New Orleans
Chunk
Work Time Free
Orleans
Smith
Will Smith
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One of my favourite places is Hampstead Heath. When I first moved to London, I lived in Highgate, and I would walk on the Heath at the weekends and go to the Kenwood House coffee shop.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Coffee
Favourite
Heath
Shop
Weekends
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I think, irrespective of your race, everybody has moments in life where they don't fit in, or where they try to puzzle through who they really are or to find the courage of their convictions.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Race
Thinking
Trying
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If you're an artist, it's great to have a knowledge of the business and be educated about that, but you've got to keep the balance right between business and artistry; otherwise, you get cynical.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Artistry
Cynical
Educated
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Everyone says to you, 'if you play Ophelia, you'll end up crazy,' but we're all somewhere on the spectrum of mental health, and I think that if you approach it that way it's not such an intimidating issue.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Approach
Intimidating
Mental Health
Spectrum
Somewhere
Issue
Mental
Says
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It's not often that you get a chance in one role to do the glamour bit and then strip off all the makeup and reveal the real person beneath the façade. Usually, it's either a glamorous role or a raw, emotional role.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Emotional
Makeup
Real
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I see L.A. as a workplace rather than somewhere to live. If I don't get out, I go crazy. If you have a little success, people treat you differently, so it's good to keep a healthy perspective. It's acting, not rocket science.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Perspective
Rocket Science
Workplace
Rocket
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I was working in the States when Brexit was going on back home in England. I often think that maybe I got a little complacent on the situation since I wasn't physically there. That's when I realized, Wow, anything is possible.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Home
Littles
Thinking
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I was always the one leading the way in terms of wanting to do acting, singing and dancing. I was lucky that my mother had a very well-adjusted perspective of the world and never pressured me to do anything I didn't want to do.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Dancing
Perspective
Pressured
Always World Me
Wanting
Well-Adjusted
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I just love performing so much, and I threw myself into every musical theater production that was going in my home town and at school. And then, I went to the National Youth Music Theatre, which was really a galvanizing experience for me when I was 17.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Home Town
Musical Theater
Performing
Threw
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It is important to be conscious of the message that you're putting out there. It takes a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get a movie to the screen. I do feel a certain element of responsibility to say something worth saying with it, as well as entertainment.
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Blood
Responsibility
Sweat
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This is what I've always wanted to do ever since I was a little girl. Coming from dance and theater and what was accessible to me in my hometown, it was all I did after school and on the weekends. The idea of making my hobby into my job was the ultimate quest.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Hometown
Ultimate
Accessible
Little Girl
Quest
Weekends
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I don't really want to just play the girlfriend or the love interest. I get so many scripts like that, and - not to moan, because I'm really fortunate - but I just look at those scripts, and my heart sinks a little bit because I think there's so much more to us than that.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Fortunate
Scripts
Moan
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I like the collarbone, a very clean collarbone. I think there's something also very delicate and balletic about that part of a woman's body, and I'm not really a cleavage person, but I do like a back or a shoulder; I think there's something very alluring about backless dresses.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Alluring
Clean
Delicate
Dresses
Shoulder
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You've got to find a way to relate to people. I just did an improvised episode for Joe Swanberg's new Netflix show, 'Easy,' and it was a huge learning curve for me and taught me so much about fear and courage. But when you're present in the moment, the audience, it's incomparable.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Learning Curve
Relate
Curve
Episode
Improvised
Joe
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Sometimes you can't fight change, because you're a part of it, and I feel that in the context of these films that are happening now, there is a kind of change coming in terms of how history is represented on film, and the African, and the African-American and British African experience.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
African American
British
African
Context
Films
Happening
Terms
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I try not to limit myself. The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media. That ensures your longevity as an artist and prevents you from getting bored with yourself and, hopefully, prevents people from getting bored with you.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Artist
Media
People
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I was born in the '80s, so I don't really remember it very strongly, but the music is so iconic. And so those artists - Madonna, Prince, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston - you still hear those songs all the time. And there's such a distinctive style - the clothes, the shoulder pads, the big hair, the perm.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Big Hair
Clothes
Distinctive
Houston
Iconic
Pads
Whitney
Time Music Remember
Artists
Jackson
Janet Jackson
Madonna
Shoulder
Strongly
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For film, I think because it's more detailed, and especially with historical material, you really have to find the right projects. Speaking as a mixed-race woman, there aren't many historical stories about people like me. When people think of 'dual heritage,' they think it's a modern concept, but really it's not.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Heritage
Me People Woman
Dual
Detailed
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Watching and learning from the great Josette Bushell-Mingo, who was playing Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the time, and then to return to the same stage six months later playing a lead role, was incredible - I fell in love with the poetry and the breadth of the language so much that I didn't want it to end.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Breadth
Return
Love Time Learning
Love Time Poetry
Lead Role
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I think being biracial is a different experience. I think that, and coming from the U.K., I feel as much white as I do black. And so it's really important for me to address these issues of identity in my work. But also, you know, we're always stronger when we work on, you know, what we have in common. And I love exploring that in my work.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw / Film Actress
Experience
Black
Common
Different
Exploring
Identity
Stronger
White
Love Work Always
Love Work Experience
Address
Also
Coming
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