Quotes by Sophie Okonedo - Page 1

I feel as proud to be Jewish as I feel to be black
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Black
Feels
Proud
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My first love is a wonderful script. It's the story.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
First Love
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Theatre has always been ahead in terms of colourblind casting.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Casting
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I'm not from an acting family. I'm from a working class family.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Class Family
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I love the industry I'm in, and it's been really generous to me.
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Generous
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I can't, for example, Google myself, because I am very sensitive.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Sensitive
For Example
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I just get offered a lot more work in America than I do in Britain.
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Offered
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Anyone can play anyone in Shakespeare. I don't think there are limits.
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Shakespeare
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To get an award for something you are having a ball doing is a real buzz.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Buzz
Award
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I never suffered anti-Semitic racism because no one thought I was Jewish.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Anti Semitic
Racism
Suffered
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My main form of exercise is my bike. I dont have a car, so I cycle everywhere.
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Car
Exercise
Form
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My main form of exercise is my bike. I don't have a car, so I cycle everywhere.
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Bike
Exercise
Everywhere
Cycle
Main
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It was a dream to be on Broadway as a kid, so to actually end up there, I loved it.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Broadway
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Being a character actor, I can go on until I'm 70 or 80; I'm not bound to the way I look.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Character Actor
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I never watch anything I do. I really would rather just not know at all how I come across.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Knows
Watches
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There are just more roles for me in America. Sadly. Because I love working in Britain. It's my home.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Love Home Me
Sadly
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The repetition of the theatre means you've got the time to get deeply inside the person you're playing.
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Repetition
Deeply
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I'd hate to lose the character actress part of me, because, by God, the parts are much more interesting.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Character Actress
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I always try to think of positive things to say about the people I portray, as it's more helpful for me.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Positive Me People
Portray
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My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don't go out very much, so I don't really know what's going on.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Nuts
Life My Life Television
Hardly
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As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Best Friend
Spectrum
Offered
Whereas
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I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the 'fame', well - you know what? - you don't actually have to buy into it if you don't want to.
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Love Is
Stuff
Want
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As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in television, I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Actresses
Black
Roles
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When I take on a role, all I tend to do is get to know the script and ask millions of questions, and keep fine tuning what I think the character is trying to say.
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Millions
Tuning
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But I'll tell you what I'm really bad at: I don't concentrate on what I'm doing, so I constantly lose things. I put my purse in the fridge - I'm one of those people.
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Fridge
Purse
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The tried and tested becomes very boring. There's no way that the British equivalent of a Bryan Cranston would get the lead in a British equivalent of 'Breaking Bad.'
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Bryan
Tested
Breaking
Breaking Bad
Equivalent
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If the writers all come from the same backgrounds, you are going to get the same sorts of characters. Get a broader variety of writers, and you get a bigger range of stories.
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Backgrounds
Range
Variety
Broader
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I like having the script before I start. With new plays, you're constantly developing as you're doing it. It's really frightening. You don't quite know how it's going to end up.
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Developing
Frightening
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As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want that. My own hair that I have day to day is a fuzzy afro. And that's who I am.
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Flip
Fuzzy
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I dont like going for more than a year without doing theater. I dont mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel Im open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Fall
Long
Years
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I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.
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Extraordinary
Possibility
Theatre
Falling
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I am not a practising Jew, and I am not embedded in Nigerian culture, but I have a sense of those things inside me, which is very handy for acting. There are a lot of things I can draw on.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Embedded
Handy
Culture I Am Me
Culture Me I Am
Nigerian
Practising
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I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Ashamed
Life Done Your
Life Lie My Life
Life My Life Difficult
Lie
Ultimately
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The photo shoot I always feel a bit embarrassed about because I don't really know what to do with myself, but they usually don't use a bad photo, so you can't worry too much. So my main concern is that I just look a bit more like myself.
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Concern
Embarrassed
Worry
Myself Always Look
Photo
Shoot
Main
Photo Shoot
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There is a lot more opportunity now, and I welcome all the conversations we are having about diversity, about women and about class... I come from a very working-class background, and I think the class thing is still probably more tricky.
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Tricky
Welcome
Working Class
Conversations
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I find it so all-encompassing when acting that there's no room for anything else when you're in it; you're just locked into thinking about it all day, you go to sleep with it, wake up with it, and when I come back, I really need time to recover.
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Locked
Wake Up
All Day
Time Thinking Day
Anything Else
Recover
Wake
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I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don't do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I'm a little bit lazy. I don't get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary.
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Lazy
Nuts
Scary
Staying
Unusual
Home Me Drive
Loads
Offered
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Sometimes I really need the money, really need to go straight to work. But if I had the absolute choice - money no object, my mortgage paid off - I'd really just work once or twice a year - but wouldn't everybody! - or at least do a different job sometimes.
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Mortgage
Paid
Twice
Absolute
Choice
Object
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Im drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. Im not saying I dont love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because Im always struggling with it myself.
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Doctors
Ideas
Struggle
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I'm drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I'm not saying I don't love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because I'm always struggling with it myself.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Emotion
Extraordinary
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Preference
Tangled
Life Love Myself
Drawn
Event
Struggling
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I am rather partial to Shakespeare, though I haven't done loads. But when it's done right, there's nothing like it. There are layers upon layers upon layers, and you unpack new things constantly. I don't know how he knew so many things - about the world, about women, about human nature, life, death, our fears and hopes.
Sophie Okonedo / Actress
Layers
New Things
Life Nature Death
Fears
Hopes
Loads
Partial
Shakespeare
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