Top 25 Thandie Newton Quotes

Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn’t filled with something else important. It’s just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.

When I am out and about I feel watched. It’s become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

When I first started, as long as you were a bit brown, you could play any kind of ethnic anything. Now it’s much more localised and specific. I feel like a wise old woman looking back on the evolution of how much more sophisticated audiences are.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It’s a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

Tell a story with your eyes when you face the camera – it makes all the difference. My best tip for making skin look good in photographs is to go easy on the make-up. You don’t want it to look heavy and mask-like.

I actually see a lot of the pain and destruction, like Black Lives Matter, in the long-term as positive because it shows that we’re moving forward; we’re evolving and moving and challenging the frontiers.

I’m not being cynical, but I have to find work that is allowing me to pay bills and keep our lives going in a way that we’re used to and trying not to betray my political beliefs while I’m doing it. Listen, it’s a tough thing to do.

In the morning, I never cleanse. I just splash my face with water and pat it dry. I honestly think that the human body is a clever thing and that the natural oils my skin produces are best for it. Then I apply a dab of rouge, and I’m off.

I guess patriarchal stereotypes have, as is true for most people, created painful moments in my life. As a result, I’m an activist. I’m for women’s rights, children’s rights, human rights, animal rights. I want to be part of the solutions to try to correct imbalance. And ‘Westworld,’ for me, is that.

I grew up on the coast of England in the ’70s. My dad is white from Cornwall, and my mom is black from Zimbabwe. Even the idea of us as a family was challenging to most people.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good. It was the first time that I existed inside a fully-functioning self – one that I controlled, that I steered, that I gave life to.

If I could change my appearance, I would have the gap between my front teeth put back in.

We’re all the same, and we all want the same thing. We all want to be secure. We all want food on the table. We want to know that our kids aren’t going to be destroyed when they’re not with us. We all want the same things, and if we’ve been hurt in our childhoods, we try and recreate the same hurt.

Often, when you go to the movies or the theatre, you think, Jesus Christ, everybody is white. But my daughter goes to an amazing dance school called Ballet Black, and they have every colour: dark, white, mixed. It looks like the future to me.

I do a lot of jivamukti yoga; it keeps me supple, strong and focused.

I love how close you are to current affairs and social issues here in England. Out in L.A., you have to make an effort to look outside that little microcosm. It’s almost like it’s a virtual reality to imagine a problem there.

You need a good, healthy diet – it’s about finding out what your body needs. Sugar is a disaster for skin, as is white flour.

I don’t put the pressure on myself to be a very successful movie star. I want to enjoy being an actor and I want to be challenged by the roles I take.

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it’s not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life.

We have all the power. Us consumers have all the power, and if we can show that, ‘Hey, I want transparency,’ Hey, I want something that’s going to be nutritious and great,’ then suddenly, kale will be all over the marketplace, and turmeric will be all over the marketplace.

I’m always angry. I wake up angry. There is a lot to be angry about. Anger is a positive energy.

If we’re all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we’re devaluing and desensitizing life.

I never understood the point of juicing – I always thought I could get enough nutrients from eating fruit and vegetables – but now I’m a convert.

Olay does a great tinted moisturiser that I add a little turmeric to – making it more yellow depending on my skin tone and the season. That’s a great trick for all women who find that foundations are too ashy or too pink for their skins. And it’s anti-inflammatory. It’s my secret weapon.

You see these casting directors’ lists of characters, and they’re all boxed in. Twenties is the hot girlfriend, thirties you can still be hot but moving swiftly to hot mum. Forties, you’re the legal person in a pantsuit. Then, once you reach your fifties, you’re positively elderly.