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I use the term 'spine' for people when I think that they may seem on the surface sort of reticent, shy, self-deprecating, shying away from the spotlight. Quiet.
- Ruth Negga
#People
#Quiet
#Shy
#Spotlight
#Think
People ask me where I'm from. I say Ireland, and they are like 'Really? You don't look Irish.' Then you have to explain... people are intrigued, but sometimes you think, 'Why do I have to tell my whole story every time I open my mouth?
- Ruth Negga
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#Me
#People
#Sometimes
#Time
The god of theater laughs in your face at planning. You can't plan as an actor; there's no way, because so much of it is dependent on other people's choices and decisions that you're at the whim of fate, really.
- Ruth Negga
#Choices
#Face
#Fate
#God
#Way
I've met loads of black and brown and various people who are well into comics.
- Ruth Negga
#Black
#Brown
#People
#Well
#Who
I work best when there's a safety trampoline of kindness.
- Ruth Negga
#Best
#Kindness
#Safety
#Trampoline
#Work
When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.
- Ruth Negga
#Connect
#Human
#Know
#Love
#Someone
I'm not the most articulate person.
- Ruth Negga
#Articulate
#Most
#Person
I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.
- Ruth Negga
#Famous
#I Am
#Me
#Name
#People
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.
- Ruth Negga
#Artist
#History
#Job
#Speak
#Winners
I've always been very talkative, very chatty, quite hyperactive. I grew up with a lot of cousins, and most of them were boys. Four in particular and I were the demolition squad. Havoc.
- Ruth Negga
#Always
#Four
#Squad
#Talkative
#Up
I had a very peripatetic childhood, so I bounced around. Lived in Ethiopia until I was, like, three or four and then lived between Ireland and London.
- Ruth Negga
#Childhood
#Four
#Ireland
#Like
#Three
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.'
- Ruth Negga
#Born
#Me
#See
#Sound
#They Say
You know when you're a kid and you get to pick a movie every Friday? I watched everything. There's no particular genre that was appealing. I just loved the idea that you could dress up and play.
- Ruth Negga
#Dress
#Everything
#Know
#Loved
#Play
We all have as much right to take up our space in the world as one another.
- Ruth Negga
#Right
#Space
#Take
#Up
#World
I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.
- Ruth Negga
#Back
#Complacency
#History
#Understand
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