Ethiopian - Actress | January 7, 1982 -
I don't like the term 'colour-blind' - because I don't want people to be blind to my colour.
Ruth Negga
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I've met loads of black and brown and various people who are well into comics.
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What I have wanted to do is take roles that are unexpected for people who look like me. Roles that the establishment would say, 'Oh, she couldn't possibly be that.'
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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.'
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The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.
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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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I love the Greeks. There's no messing around - it's all do or die with them.
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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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Diversity needs to operate on every level. It's great that the Oscars have highlighted it, but black actors getting nominated shouldn't be the only result. There's so much more that needs to be done.
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I don't think I've necessarily been able to pick and choose in my career; I don't know how many people do. But I'll tell you what I've been able to do: I've been able to say no. It is the only thing you can hold on to sometimes, is that ability to say 'no.' And I think that in that way, you can create some kind of career.
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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 was an attention seeker, always in trouble.
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