Words matter. These are the best Sophie Okonedo Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I love being a punter.
I love the industry I’m in, and it’s been really generous to me.
I get offered loads of unusual stuff. I just don’t do loads because I like staying at home a lot, and I’m a little bit lazy. I don’t get that thing of going from film to film that people do. It would drive me nuts, and that level of fame is quite scary.
I am not a practising Jew, and I am not embedded in Nigerian culture, but I have a sense of those things inside me, which is very handy for acting. There are a lot of things I can draw on.
I like gardening.
I like having the script before I start. With new plays, you’re constantly developing as you’re doing it. It’s really frightening. You don’t quite know how it’s going to end up.
When I take on a role, all I tend to do is get to know the script and ask millions of questions, and keep fine tuning what I think the character is trying to say.
When I do things that aren’t very good, I’m worse as an actor. I don’t know what I pick up – but it’s something not very nice.
To get an award for something you are having a ball doing is a real buzz.
There is a lot more opportunity now, and I welcome all the conversations we are having about diversity, about women and about class… I come from a very working-class background, and I think the class thing is still probably more tricky.
I’m drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. I’m not saying I don’t love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because I’m always struggling with it myself.
With everything in my life, I don’t think too much ahead.
I’m not from an acting family. I’m from a working class family.
The repetition of the theatre means you’ve got the time to get deeply inside the person you’re playing.
The tried and tested becomes very boring. There’s no way that the British equivalent of a Bryan Cranston would get the lead in a British equivalent of ‘Breaking Bad.’
I never watch anything I do. I really would rather just not know at all how I come across.
It was a dream to be on Broadway as a kid, so to actually end up there, I loved it.
I just get offered a lot more work in America than I do in Britain.
As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want that. My own hair that I have day to day is a fuzzy afro. And that’s who I am.
There’s nothing worse than actors spouting about what they think.
I don’t like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don’t mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I’m open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.
I can’t, for example, Google myself, because I am very sensitive.
Anyone can play anyone in Shakespeare. I don’t think there are limits.
My life is not nuts. I hardly ever watch television, I don’t go out very much, so I don’t really know what’s going on.
If the writers all come from the same backgrounds, you are going to get the same sorts of characters. Get a broader variety of writers, and you get a bigger range of stories.
