Words matter. These are the best Noma Dumezweni Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The weight of expectation is huge. But for me, that pressure has been outweighed by getting text messages from mums I know saying how huge it is for their mixed-race daughters that I am playing Hermione.
My mum’s a single mum, I’m a single mum, and you do find yourself rushing around just to make sure everything’s all right.
For me, you could say my big West End debut was ‘Cursed Child,’ but I’m in my 40s, and it’s like, ‘When is that beginning?’
I arrived in this country as a refugee child with my sister and my mother.
I now realise I’m a great actor.
However popular you are, you still feel like an outsider.
I’m a great company actor, a great supporting actor. I serve the piece.
I remember, being young is a scary, wonderful feeling.
If I think even a week ahead, I get terrified. My big thing is trying to enjoy the moment as much as I can.
I’m working with theatre-makers who are the top of their game, and it’s extraordinary.
I did fringe theatre for so many years, and then I got my first play at the RSC, which was an amazing feeling, but I was 30 and had started acting in my early twenties.
I have been that actor who’s watched peers and thought, ‘God, they’re doing well. I’ll never get there.’
I don’t do the victim mode. I don’t do blame. I can’t bear that.
I’ve always been curious about the other worlds we can shift into in our imaginations.
Family – it’s all about family. Families feeling safe and finding your safe place.
I wasn’t very academic at school, but the Wolsey Youth Theatre was the saving of me.
At the very beginning, being a parent did impact how I go about this business.
Whoever we are, we have to carve something out of our lives. I would like to be on my deathbed going, ‘I’ve enjoyed that. I went through the rollercoaster of it, but I’ve appreciated it.’
