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Sophie Okonedo Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: british
Birth: 1968

Topics

Friend Best Best Friend Black Role

It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

Poetry Better Someone Trying You

We go on a lot in this country about offences being caused by drugs. The truth is just as many offences are caused by drink. And that should be taken into account.

Truth Truth Is Country Go Drink

The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.

Good Son Great Man Wise Good Man

Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.

Great New York People Texas Know

You need to learn that, unless your lead character is written in a way that one of the 20 movie stars want to play him, your movie will not get made.

Robert Ben Garant

Stars Character Learn You Play Want

Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby; I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

Life Looking Back Looking Back Go

My parents didn't know anything about collegiate scholarships, so they had accepted the national team training stipend, the monthly stipend that I received after making the national team, so I was ineligible for NCAA eligibility anyway.

Dominique Moceanu

Training Parents Team Know Anything

I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.

Fight Me Emotions Film Get Critical

I think 'Amazing Race' is sometimes like being on tour.

Amazing Think Sometimes Race Being

I always rise to the occasion for that big bet.

Rise Always Big Bet Occasion

A lot of golfers take the club back with almost no upper-body rotation - they're all arms. And even when they do rotate back, it's usually on a flat shoulder plane. If your shoulders turn back fairly level with the ground, it's hard to swing down from inside the target line and hit an accurate shot.

Back Down Target Swing Shoulder

I love racing and I love doing well.

Love Racing Doing Well I Love

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