Ruth Negga Quotes

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.

Ruth Negga

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MoneyPeopleFamousYouWantBecome

I'm famous. That's my job.

Jerry Rubin

JobFamous

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Maya Angelou

SoulGivingBenefitsFoundGiver

For me, growing up, I felt like there was something fatally and tragically flawed in my nature and that it was my duty to try to avoid falling for that vice.

Shyam Selvadurai

NatureMeGrowing UpGrowingDuty

I would miss months of school and then return with bright blond hair. Needless to say, there was bullying. I wasn't beaten up daily, but there was name-calling and jealousy. You have to bear in mind that 'Harry Potter' wasn't cool. I wasn't part of the 'Terminator' franchise.

Tom Felton

DailyBullyingSchoolJealousyMind

Eyebrows are really important because they structure the face. In school it was funny because I was always the one walking around with tweezers plucking my girlfriends' eyebrows. I was really good; eyebrow tweezing runs in my family - my mother used to do mine, and I picked it up.

Rita Ora

FamilyFunnyGoodMotherSchool

I couldn't imagine trying anything else besides acting. But I didn't know that to make it meant I'd be on a movie screen.

Mary Steenburgen

TryingActingKnowAnythingImagine

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

Michael Servetus

TruthOthersSeenErrorAgreeMust

I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks.

Jonathan Brandis

PeopleMeThoughtRememberChair

It's certainly possible to write fiction that isn't trivial and isn't what people would call political, but it is very hard to figure out how, because our ordinary lives have such a strong tincture now of the whole world.

Deborah Eisenberg

PeopleWorldStrongPoliticalNow

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg

TimePoetryWorldNightThinking

I don't really talk about 'Next to Normal' that much anymore.

Alice Ripley

TalkNextNormalMuchAboutReally

Back when I was maybe 19, guys would go, 'I can kick your butt!' So I had a few showdowns. To my advantage, I learned martial arts, and what you really learn is not to fight.

William Zabka

FightLearnYouBackI CanGo

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